Signiant Powers Studio Content Flow

Use Cases for Studios

Interconnect Studios and Facilities

Facilitate efficient, secure, and automated media exchanges between diverse organizations. With thousands of companies already connected to the Signiant Platform, organizations can quickly and safely share content with a simple “cloud handshake,” ensuring high-speed, reliable transfers without exposing sensitive network information to their partners. This enhances productivity, maintains security, and keeps production scheduled on track, whether automated or person initiated.

Global Production Hub

Leverage the Signiant Platform to centralize and secure content flow throughout the production lifecycle. Search for assets across diverse and distributed storage and provide content access to globally dispersed teams. Granular access controls and centralized visibility make it easy to keep your content secure so that teams only have access to the content they need, and operations teams have complete visibility into the chain of custody of all assets.

Seamless Cloud & On-Prem Production

There are many storage options available — different workflows require different solutions, whether on-prem, in the cloud, or a hybrid approach. It’s essential for your teams to have fast, reliable, and secure access to content, regardless of storage type or location. With a storage independence mindset, choose your storage technologies to optimize costs, enhance flexibility, and scale to meet your needs and workflows.

Production Footage Ingest

Enable automated and ad-hoc content ingest directly into your storage from anywhere in the world. Stay informed with real-time visibility and alerts and reduce errors by enforcing file delivery specifications. Editors can access footage directly from the set, minimizing communication delays and errors, ensuring the right files reach the right people, and keeping the project on track efficiently.

Production Work-In-Progress Backups

Mitigate the risks of working with high-value content by implementing robust processes to protect work-in-progress assets with Signiant. Set-up automated jobs to back up your WIP nightly to the cloud or off-site storage and provide secure access to back-ups so that content is always available even if there is a network interruption or storage failure.

API Integrations

Easily integrate the Signiant Platform into your studio production infrastructure using robust, modern APIs and leverage existing integrations with popular media tech systems to ensure content and information flows seamlessly across all your systems.

Signiant Benefits

Inter-company Global Transfers

Inter-company Global Transfers

Companies that regularly exchange data with other companies will benefit from a simple, secure handshake mechanism where two parties can agree to send and receive files to one another. Additionally, partners can perform person-initiated transfers with centralized visibility and control all managed through the web console.

Security

Security

Signiant adheres to the information assurance principle of defense-in-depth, incorporating multiple layers of security controls. Signiant completed the Trusted Partner Network’s (TPN) App and Cloud Gold Shield Assessment for its SaaS products. This rigorous evaluation was conducted by Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), a TPN-accredited assessor with a longstanding reputation as a respected independent technology evaluator in the media industry. Additionally, Signiant is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, further demonstrating their commitment to security and reliability.

Easy Integration

Easy Integration

The Signiant Platform offers a modern, event-driven API, making it easy to integrate with other applications, making it easy to add additional logic to jobs or connect workflows to other systems.

Move media to, from and between cloud storage

Move media to, from and between cloud storage

Easily automate data transfers to and from your on-premises storage to cloud object storage. Jet also supports transfers between AWS S3 buckets for both internal and partner (inter-company) transfers.

Search and preview media across distributed storage

Search and preview media across distributed storage

Easily search, preview, and take action on media across all your distributed Signiant-connected storage — on-premises or in the cloud — anywhere in the world.

The Signiant Platform is highly adaptable for studios, managing a wide range of tasks across departments efficiently. It streamlines footage transfers from sets to edit suites, facilitates collaboration between creatives and technicians, and ensures smooth distribution from screening rooms to theaters. It also connects with partners and licensees for handling localized content, marketing promos, financial data, and more. This integration keeps everything secure and efficient, making it an essential tool for modern studio operations.

Featured Differentiators

M&E Focused

Signiant’s M&E-focused mission offers a SaaS platform tailored to modern studio needs with specialized products, features, and integrations. The platform’s robust security, validated by Trusted Partner Network (TPN) assessments, ensures studio-standard content protection for all file transfers in transit and rest. Signiant handles over 1.2 billion media industry files, seamlessly transferring them across various on-premises and cloud storage types.

Simple Automation for Complex Workflows

Signiant’s powerfully simple automated intelligent file transfer accelerates routine studio content flow and file distribution, eliminating the need for manual processes, saving time and money. The Signiant Platform offers easy setup, scalability, secure transfers, job scheduling, and hot folder triggers, all from one easy-to-use dashboard.

Engaged Customer Support

Signiant’s engaged and responsive customer support team, provides excellent 24/7 global support, specialized media and entertainment knowledge, expert technical assistance, proactive success strategies, extensive training resources, and customizable Service Level Agreements to meet diverse enterprise needs.

Limitless Bandwidth Utilization

Signiant’s subscription pricing structure eliminates bandwidth limits and taxes on file transfers, allowing companies to use as much bandwidth as needed. Additionally, they don’t charge based on throughput, which can otherwise restrict production choices.

Multi-thread/Multi-gigabyte Speeds

Signiant’s multi-thread, multi-gig fast file transfer capabilities offer studios concurrent file transfers, especially effective for smaller files like VFX sequences. In high-latency networks, multi-threading can help achieve better network throughput by making full use available network capacity.

Consolidated Content Access

No matter where content resides — in the cloud or on-premises, local or global, the Signiant Platform offers “one-pane of glass” to see all the content in Signiant-connected storage. With granular permissions, users can search, find and take action on content with moving files.

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The Signiant Platform by the Numbers

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Learn More About the Signiant Platform

The Signiant Platform builds on the foundation of our world-class fast file movement apps and adds workflow-centric production services that make working with media even more efficient.

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