An introduction to accsyn

accsyn is designed to be used in one of these two scenarios:

• Media production; Shooting, ingest, post production.

• Media distribution and archival;  Tagging and structuring, proxy generation, web streaming/previews, distribution to screen (cinemas, conferences), long term archival.

These common features are available across the platform:

• File Delivery; Smooth web browser based delivery of large file sets.

• File Sharing; Cloud hosted or on-prem advanced ACL driven file and folder sharing, replacing FTP and similar solutions. With advanced functionality such as desktop app monitor with queue management, locally mapped shares, remote sites/officess, render farm and publish workflows.

These features are targeting production:

• BYOS; Run accsyn servers on your own infrastructure. Compute/render farm, hooks and publishing.

• Workflows; Automate file transfers, creating advanced API driven workflows. 

These features are targeting distribution and archival:

• Media Vault; Media/master long term cloud storage with IMDB linkage, proxies, web streaming, clip extraction, Q/C.

• Lab Services;  Have our partners help you refine your media assets.

Important note: The Media Vault can not be run on-prem as of version 3 (although this is subject to be improved in future versions). To facilitation both BYOS and Media Vault, two separate workspaces  should be deployed.

Film production, and media production in general, deals with transferring and storing filmed and processed media. What really slows down film production and distribution is slow file transfers, and limited means of organising and sharing media assets.

accsyn is designed act as a reliable file hub throughout the entire film creation process - 

from shoot on set all the way to the screen - cinema or a streaming 

The accsyn cloud backend both orchestrates high speed p2p transfers, compute jobs and provides media management capabilities. The accsyn app, which runs both on desktop and as a background service, act as the high speed file transfer endpoints.

Security and integrity is paramount, all internal communications are carried over standard https protocols and the ASC (accsyn copy) accelerated p2p protocol are using standard AES industry grade encryption. 

No file servers are listening 24/7, providing a minimal attack surface for hackers. Only during a brief moment during ASC file transfer init, a software firewalled (only accepting connections from the remote client IP) is spawned and then teared down upon connection establishment.

For more in depth coverage of how the accsyn protocol works with comparison to other file transfer solutions: 

Yes, you can start your own 1 month 500GB free trial by signing up a workspace at https://accsyn.io/trial - with all features exposed, no credit card required.

To start using accsyn within your business, you will need to create an accsyn Workspace:

• Go to https://accsyn.io, you will be asked to register your personal account - this is mandatory.

• An verification email will be sent to you, please action it.

• Once logged in to accsyn, click START 30 DAYS FREE TRIAL button in the left hand menu.

• Start the workspace by entering your contact information and the name you wish to give your Workspace, this can be changed later.

Once in, you are ready to create your first accsyn delivery.

An accsyn license grants you access to all features within the platform, without restrictions. Two types of licenses exists, the accsyn Cloud Workspace license and BYOS server licenses.

accsyn comes with a standard 1TB Cloud workspace, with an additional charge per TB (Terabyte) of additional cloud storage used on a monthly basis together with an additional charge for web streams.

BYOS is charged  per server type - storage, site and render, quarterly in advance.

Lab services are charged per order item, hours spent and deliverable.

Depending on were you are in production, there are different ways to approach accsyn after you started your trial. The features below can be combined in many ways, it is up to you to decide which tools to use.

Delivery

I you just need a delivery tool for sending out file packages, or receiving files, you simply use your web browser logged in to https://accsyn.io - no additional software needed.  Looking to deliver from your own on-prem server, head over to BYOS section.

accsyn means accelerated file synchronisation - a platform for keeping your file assets and workflows in sync within your production environment