Key Benefits

The financial and operational benefits that can be gained by adopting Parking can be summarised as:

Open standard archiving of edit sequences.

Improved day to day utilisation of online editing storage, simplifying equipment
scheduling.

All required data can be simply placed in a long term data tape archive with
all required metadata for rebuild.

Simple to perform background archive operation, saves operator and system time
compared to complex and time consuming disc consolidation.

Reduced capital expenditure through use of lower cost storage and removable
media.

Increased potential revenue from efficient re-versioning.

Archive files may be transported and restored into different systems.