Modern media workflows are complex. Productions span continents, teams collaborate across multiple time zones, and assets move between on-prem servers, high-performance workstations, and cloud storage. Somewhere in that flow, creativity meets complexity. And too often, the two don’t align.
Editors, producers, and VFX artists need instant, intuitive access to their work without waiting for setups, file transfers, or technical gatekeeping. The combined capabilities of Strawberry, Pixstor, and Ngenea gives them that freedom. The integrated tech trio removes the background complexity that slows creative momentum while ensuring storage performance keeps up with demand.
Two specialists, one unified vision
Projective’s Strawberry is built for the creative heart of the industry. It manages projects, permissions, and metadata in a way that feels natural to editors and artists. From Avid to Adobe to DaVinci Resolve, users can find, open, and collaborate on projects instantly without navigating complex file systems or waiting for IT setup.
Pixitmedia’s Ngenea is an intelligent data management and orchestration platform that unifies on-prem, nearline, and cloud storage into a single global namespace. Ngenea moves data automatically, tiering it between performance and capacity layers according to usage and policy. It gives studios the control they need over vast volumes of content without adding friction for users.
Pixstor provides the high-performance storage layer that creative teams rely on. Applications connect over SMB or NFS, while Strawberry handles the project framework above it. Pixstor and Ngenea manage tiering and archive orchestration in the background, allowing creative users to stay focused on their work.
Together, they form a workflow that connects people, projects, and storage into one intelligent ecosystem.
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From manual setup to automated orchestration
In many facilities, new productions begin with a maze of manual steps. Folders must be created, permissions assigned, templates copied, and users onboarded. It is time-consuming and prone to error. Strawberry automates this entire process. With one action, it builds project structures, applies permissions, and links users through single sign-on.
Once connected to Pixstor, that automation extends to the storage layer. Strawberry uses Pixstor’s open APIs to apply project rules directly to the underlying filesystem. Integrated with Ngenea, the same logic now defines how data is stored, accessed, and protected across multiple tiers. Editors see simplicity. IT sees compliance and control. Both see time saved.
Media without duplication
Traditional shared-storage workflows multiply data. The same clip may exist in dozens of projects across different workspaces, eating up terabytes of capacity. The Strawberry, Pixstor, and Ngenea combination removes that waste through file-level intelligence. Hard links allow multiple projects to reference a single master file without duplication.
The impact is significant. Facilities typically report storage savings of 70-80%. Fewer copies mean less risk of version errors and faster collaboration. Every project becomes a clean, contained environment, easy to manage and simple to archive.
A foundation for global collaboration
Ngenea brings intelligence to the movement of data. Within the Strawberry interface, users can park or recall a project with a simple click. Ngenea automatically shifts content between Pixstor performance tiers and lower cost or cloud environments. Proxy files and metadata remain searchable, so creative teams maintain full visibility even when content is offline. This dynamic movement keeps pipelines responsive.
The integration also prepares studios for multi-site and hybrid workflows. Because each project is containerized – combining media, metadata, and permissions – it can move between locations or clouds as a single entity. Whether teams are cutting in London, grading in New York, or finishing in Singapore, everyone works on the same project in real time. No lost versions. No manual transfers. Just a continuous creative flow across borders.
That consistency of experience is essential in a world where productions are distributed but deadlines remain tight.
Integration as innovation
In media production, innovation is no longer just about faster storage or smarter software. It’s about integration. The partnership between Projective and Pixitmedia shows what happens when creative workflow management, intelligent storage, and data orchestration align.
The result is an ecosystem where technology adapts to the way creative teams work. Not the other way around. It’s a solution built for creative momentum, one that lets ideas move as freely as the media itself.
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