If You're No Longer Using Your Father's Video Editor, Why Are You Still Using His Router?

Today's workstation-based video creation and manipulation tools allow users to treat video as discrete chunks of images and sounds that can be manipulated in various ways. This abstraction provides the freedom to focus on content generation rather than on the tools used to create the content. Yet, while the latest video tools allow far more creativity and functionality, the way video is distributed among these tools remains unchanged. Storage Area Networks (SANs) are the basis for a new video distribution system. They allow the video moving between the tools to be treated in the same way as the video inside the tools - as discrete chunks of images and sounds. SANs empower entire teams of people to focus on the process of creation and creative collaboration rather than on how to best move materials between workstations.

Published

1999-11

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M00316

ISBN

978-1-61482-931-7