Nara is storage agnostic, offering support for all of a facility’s network storage – either on premises or in the cloud.
Index Anything, Access Anywhere, Stream Anytime
Instant access to your media from anywhere in the world.
Introducing Nara, a revolutionary new media tool providing integrated media access, streaming and indexing. Nara provides a single solution for media professionals at production and post-production facilities, VFX houses and other companies working with large media files – streamlining workflows, collaboration, review processes and more.
Nara is a FilmLight venture, utilising the technological foundation and expertise of FilmLight.
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Index
Struggling to find the media you’re looking for? Tired of waiting for your index to update?
Nara provides media-specific metadata for fast search and access while its advanced, native API indexing system ensures your index and storage are always in sync.
Access
Tired of hunting through lists of files, unable to find what you’re looking for? Fed up with downloading the wrong files or being denied access to the media you need?
Nara provides a web-based media browser which allows for streamlined browsing with minimum risk. Each file is presented with a thumbnail and associated metadata for informed searching of media assets – all while leveraging industry-leading, enterprise-level security authentication to provide secure media access.
Stream
Wishing you could just hit play on any media, regardless of size or format? And that you could guarantee the files you’re viewing are colour accurate?
Nara’s web-based media streaming offers the most colour-accurate playback. It natively decodes and streams over 160+ media codecs remotely and accurately in a web-browser, without the need to transcode to proxy files – enabling faster and precise media streaming.
Find out more in the Nara datasheet.
Media Partners
Support for 160+ professional codecs/formats
Technology Partners
Sales Partners
Frequently Asked Questions
Are there any media restrictions?
No. Nara can provide media previews of any media codec (including camera RAW formats such as ARRI, RED, Sony and many more). Check out our full list of supported codecs here.
Is Nara secure?
Yes. Nara leverages industry leading, enterprise level security authentication. It utilises tried and tested facility infrastructure, which allows for streamlined browsing with a minimum of risk.
Can I access Nara if I am working remotely?
As long as you are on the same LAN via a VPN or otherwise, and you have login credentials, you can always access Nara.
How does Nara benefit me?
Nara will allow you and your team to maximise efficiency by providing instant search and find tools, as well as accurate, bandwidth-friendly streaming of any media file you can imagine irrespective of its encoding or format. This allows you to seamlessly share and collaborate on the media at hand, without having to jump through the regular workflow ‘hoops’ that plague our industry today.
Is Nara supported in the cloud?
Yes! Nara is supported in the cloud. Nara can be deployed alongside your existing cloud infrastructure within your AWS estate. Please contact info@nara.stream for more information.
Can I deploy my own hardware?
We do allow customers to deploy their own hardware. However, as we have very strict hardware requirements we would always recommend purchasing the hardware through us or one of our sales partners.
How many users can stream at the same time?
Each Nara appliance is limited to five simultaneous streams; however, you can deploy an unlimited number of Nara appliances.