Lights, Camera, Action – How Tsecond’s BRYCK Platform is Advancing Creative Workflows​

In the presentation, Jimmy Fusil, a Media and Entertainment (M&E) technologist at Tsecond, discusses the challenges of managing vast amounts of data in the media and entertainment industry, particularly in film and TV production. He highlights how the transition from analog to digital workflows over the past 25 years has led to an explosion in data generation, with increasingly larger file sizes due to advancements in resolution from SD to 8K and beyond. This shift has made data the most valuable asset in production, requiring secure, efficient, and high-speed storage solutions. Tsecond’s BRYCK platform, a portable NVMe storage device, addresses these challenges by enabling on-device data processing, secure transport, and quick backups, making it an essential tool for modern creative workflows.

Fusil emphasizes that film production is inherently an edge-centric activity, where data is generated in real-time on set and needs to be processed and accessed immediately. Directors and cinematographers require low-latency, high-throughput solutions to review footage and make creative decisions on the spot. The BRYCK platform, with its ability to handle up to a petabyte of data and deliver high throughput, ensures that large volumes of data can be accessed and processed quickly, even in remote or challenging environments. Fusil also discusses the importance of portability, as BRYCK allows data to be easily transported from one location to another, such as from a film set to a post-production facility, without the need for lengthy data transfers.

Several use cases are presented to illustrate the BRYCK’s capabilities, including a miniseries production where 130 terabytes of data were transported from New York to Los Angeles for color grading, and a high-profile project for Sphere, which required handling 16K footage at 60 frames per second. Additionally, Fusil describes an extreme use case in the Atacama Desert, where BRYCK was used to record 150 terabytes of footage from multiple cameras in harsh conditions. These examples demonstrate how BRYCK not only meets the high-performance demands of modern media production but also provides a reliable and flexible solution for managing data in edge environments.