Molinare turns to Nara for media access

Molinare has installed Filmlight’s Nara platform for media collaboration.

The tool, which focuses on allowing access to media files and their metadata by teams and individuals, will be used across the whole of Molinare Creative Group, which includes Notorious DIT, Molinare, Sound Warriors, Pip Studios, and recently launched VFX house Elephant Goldfish. 

“We recognised that there were a lot of people in our company who would benefit from more efficient access to our media,” explains Molinare’s CTO, Darren Woolfson. “That might be a post-production manager (PPM) who wants to see a work in progress (WIP), or the marketing team looking at material for showreels, but these requests would need to go down to the MCR department for transcoding and then come back up for viewing. It was time consuming and used a lot of resource.”

He added: “10 years ago, we were a business operating out of two buildings in Soho. Molinare Creative Group is now a growing international business with facilities across Europe. Our goal is to deploy equipment in one location (be that in one of our facilities, in the cloud or in a data centre) and use tools to aid collaboration across sites. Nara supports us with this aim and will be essential to an efficient multi-site collaboration.”

Sam Lempp, head of business development for Nara at FilmLight, said: “Molinare and FilmLight have had a close relationship for nearly 25 years, and we look forward to continuing this through Nara. We’re actively developing the Nara platform based on user requests; every tool we have released so far has been suggested or designed based on customer feedback. Molinare has been, and will continue to be, a large part of this.”