Baselight with Avid ISIS Workspaces

[Mark Mulcaster]

Do any of the post houses that people work for on here pull media directly off of an Avid Isis workspace to grade directly on Baselight?

If so i was wondering what your experiences have been positive or negative? Thanks

Edited January 27, 2017 by Mark

[Abby Bader]

Sure Mark, that would not be a problem at all and is an approved workflow. Maybe @Daniele Siragusano can elaborate more on that?

[Mark Mulcaster]

Cheers Abby,

We currently have 3 Isis with multiple work spaces and we're having great success with working directly from them with Baselight.  

All except with a 4k project where by the connection between the Baselight &  Workspace is dropped.

After the loss of the connection i've been unsuccessful remounting the workspace via the isis client manager and the only way to reset the system director is by a full restart of the Node.

We're running off a 10Gb connection, but  as Baselight is new to us we're working through the problems with Filmlight Tech Support who are incredibly helpful, but i thought it would be good to ask the community to see if others have experienced any problems with connecting to Avid Isis in general

Edited February 15, 2017 by Mark

[Abby Bader]

I remember we had a lot of connection issues with the old Unity system back in the days and the Avid guys were hanging around day and night with blue rings around their eyes. With the ISIS and Baselight I haven't experienced any connection issues. Most of the studios I've been working with the last years have tech guys and hot lines to the support services because they can't afford down times and clients waiting.

Please give us an update when it's up and running again.

[Daniele Siragusano]

if the network is unreliable, you can use input caching to only pull the media once. To do so select all stack tops, group grade and then press the little C button in the top right corner of the parameter view. Baselight will cache the input media in 16bit floating point. For quick TV turnarounds this might be overkill, but if you grade several days/weeks on one show it makes grading more stable and also reduces load on the FileServer.

[Mark Mulcaster]

Thanks Daniele!

We've had Tom in last week and Ivan is in today looking at this and a few other items from the install of our second Baselight.

The support guys are really awesome!

[Mark Mulcaster]

Thought id update this incase this is useful to anyone -

With the help of the support team at Filmlight we set-up a mac gateway system that acts as the name suggests as a gateway. 

Avid work-spaces are mounted via the client manager on the mac gateway and that in turn is mounted on the Baselight Twos.
Media can then be streamed vai the 10Gb network without much drop in performance.

As Daniele suggested we cache bigger jobs at the point of conform and this also helps with UHD playback.