Customer Story
Producers of Survivor South Africa attain world-class production value with help from Teradici CAS
Afrokaans Film & Television is a multicultural African production company based in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa. Founded in 2006, Afrokaans has become synonymous with cutting-edge TV programming—including reality shows, lifestyle shows, celebrity news shows, and dramas. The company’s work includes Survivor South Africa and Power Couple!
We take great care in choosing the people, locations, and solutions we need to produce Survivor South Africa. Teradici CAS and exceptional support from Brave Channels help us ‘punch above our weight.’ We’ve been on or ahead of schedule all season—and with production value that’s second to none.
Challenges
- Create a new season of Survivor South Africa with the same awesome production value as the American version
- Deliver every episode on time and on budget
- Give post-production editors the flexibility to work from anywhere, on any device
- Efficiently edit remotely hosted video files with as little as 10 Mbps bandwidth
Solution
- Switched from a third-party post-production facility to “production as a service” from Brave Channels, a local cloud service provider
- Accessed powerful virtual workstations in the Brave Channels cloud from existing Mac and Windows devices, using Teradici CAS
Results
- Delivered world-class production value for Survivor South Africa: Island of Secrets, producing episodes on time and within budget
- Transformed business model by bringing production tools to editors wherever they are and enabling round-the-clock editing
- Increased editors’ productivity by giving them autonomy over where and when to work
- Kept footage secure because video files never leave the data center
- Built the foundation to hire talented editors in other countries in the future
