How to Speed up Data Movement in Film Production? Interview with Mario de Oliveira, Chief IT Manager of O2 Pós

O2 Pós has 30 years in the audiovisual market, delivering projects using high scalability and quality, utilizing the latest resources in post-production. They delivered for some of the largest companies in the industry, such as Netflix, Warner, Amazon, Rede Globo, Fox, Turner, and HBO.

O2 Pós counts on its massive infrastructure to handle the entire process of post-production, from lab to delivery.

With more than 30 editing stations connected between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, O2 Pós works as an editing house, where it is possible to rent the station on demand, in both cities, and access the projects in a shared way. The director can be in Rio while the editor works in São Paulo.

Raysync: Hi Mario! Thank you for accepting our interview! Would you briefly introduce yourself?

Mario: My name is Mario, I’m a chief IT manager of O2 Pós in Brazil. And we have finding over internet some software to improve our FTP client to send you some data for our client, and we tested Raysync and it was very good.

Raysync: Could you share with us your use case in data transfer?

Mario: We have a small client that we need to send the data, the videos to them and we were using another large file transfer solution. We have a playback video that’s okay but the speed of the transmission is not so good. And Raysync it's very fast and best than the other large file transfer solutions. In a little over four months of Raysync usage, O2 has already transferred about 26 advertisement and entertainment projects. The transfer time had a considerable improvement. Uploading files that used to take 2h to 3h, now take between 20 to 40 minutes with Raysync, greatly improving our workflow with major players such as Netflix, Amazon, and HBO.

Raysync: May us know currently how big is the transfer volume in your post-production project?

Mario: About five terabytes.

Raysync: The collaboration between and across the teams is important in post-production, could you please elaborate on how your team achieves high-efficient collaboration?

Mario: Basically communication. On a weekly basis, we send for O2 Play, our film distribution division, Masters, Trailers, Artwork and Extras. The content we send is usually heavier and the migration to Raysync was essential in terms of file transfer speed. Another entertainment project that was one of the first featuring Raysync was the Gramado Film Festival, and the experience with receiving and uploading movies files was great in terms of organization, user creation, and speed as well.

Raysync: Is it possible to know which projects are use Raysync for data transfer?

Mario: Projects that used Raysync includes Sustagen, Renner, Kinder and Huggies. We love Raysync, it’s so good, and it's so fast.

RENNER © O2 Pós

Agency: Paim comunicação

Direction: Fred Luz

Production Company: O2 Filmes

Post: O2 Pós

Sustagen Kids © O2 Pós

Raysync: How do you like Raysync services?

Mario: Raysync did well in time optimization, besides, it also makes it easier to upload raw materials and dailies that we need to share with the editors of entertainment projects. In advertisement, our other work front, we noticed that receiving materials became faster and safer with Raysync. We use this service when we shoot outside of São Paulo, where our office is located.