...the Streambox platform to improve communication efforts of their postproduction workflow by leveraging the industry-leading IP-based solution to send video and audio. This enables Skywalker Sound to collaborate with clients located anywhere in the world, facilitating real-time feedback and approval on projects to yield high quality end results, but without wasting valuable production time on traveling. The end-to-end Streambox solution allows Skywalker Sound to align 7.1 audio against video picture for the editing phase of post-production projects that require delivery over less than ideal public Internet connections.
Using Streambox 9300 Encoders and Decoders, Skywalker Sound is able to achieve two-second latency with 15 Mbps over an encrypted VPN. Providing high quality video and audio to their clients lets Skywalker Sound interact simultaneously while obtaining the precise feedback involved in all facets of the postproduction sound process. Skywalker Sound previously would travel to the client’s whereabouts to hand deliver and review files for approval. With a high percentage of their client base in Los Angeles, frequent travel time from Marin County accumulated rapidly. Streambox enables Skywalker Sound to eliminate physical travel to their client’s location when needed, yet still emulate the experience of working with their clients as if they were in the studio. Conducting what they call a “mix review,” Skywalker Sound is able to share encrypted audio along with video of the actual scene for their client to evaluate remotely over the public Internet. Collaborating in real-time allows filmmakers and producers located anywhere to make decisions faster in a mix review session with reliable high-quality results.