EditShare has supplied a storage platform to Chinese television and production company BKW. This solution was developed and implemented by dealer and system integrator ThinkTone.

This implementation has been made to attend the needs of the reality show Love Actually. The idea of it is twelve people living in the same house during a month. The show tracks their relationships as they develop.

The nature of the production means there are more than 100 cameras shooting simultaneously. This means great amounts of content that demands a lot of post-production needs.

The system, developed by ThinkTone and EditShare, is built on the EFS450 storage solution, with 13 nodes and around 2 petabytes of storage, all available online. There are 56 edit workstations across three production rooms.

“Reality television is growing exponentially in China, so to really win and keep an audience, you have to keep delivering the best insights, action and storylines,” said Xu Bing, CEO of BKW. “EditShare and their Chinese partner ThinkTone were willing to work with us to optimize not just their technology but our workflows to ensure we can deliver exciting and engaging programmes, quickly and efficiently. The result is that Love Actually is extremely successful.”