Secure, Rapid File Transfers for Digital Cinema Delivery
Track Every Transfer
Maintain oversight of every delivery with logs, notifications, and cost breakdowns.
Free Short-Term Storage
Deliver unlimited package sizes with a free 5-7 day storage window for distribution.
Control Access
Secure copyrighted media and prevent unauthorized access with expiry timers, permissions, and file limits.
How MASV Helps Film Festivals & Cinemas
The Challenge
Coordinating the distribution of hundreds of digital cinema packages and screening files is a lengthy procedure with zero margin for error.
Both film distributors and film festivals require large volumes of high-resolution media to be securely delivered globally to tight deadlines.
- Distributors and DCP facilities need to send digital cinema packages to thousands of theatres around the world just days before a big release.
- Print traffic coordinators need to receive final content submissions from hundreds of filmmakers at once.
- Protecting copyrighted material is essential, as is managing permissions, key delivery message (KDM) information, and file limits.
- Shipping a hard drive or media shuttle is slow, expensive, and problematic.
The MASV solution
MASV: Hassle-free digital cinema file delivery for film distributors and film festivals.
With an accelerated and secure global transfer network, MASV reliably moves multi-terabyte DCPs and digital cinema distribution master files over the cloud, ensuring content delivery from filmmakers and DCP facilities to movie theaters and film festivals alike.
- Send image sequences and complex DCP folders with auto-resume to ensure every file delivery is successful in any network condition.
- Embed upload Portals on festival submission sites with custom file size limits, permission controls, and form fields that can be modified.
- Share copyrighted content with secure file transfer backed by TPN Gold Shield.
- Automate the transfer of digital cinema packages to multiple destinations with simple no-code workflows.
Why Every Cinematic Masterpiece Needs MASV
Simplify Submissions
Define content delivery requirements for festival submissions with Portals, including bespoke naming conventions, file types, form fields, max file sizes, and much more.
Protect Folder Structure
Upload entire DCP folders without zipping first. MASV preserves all folder structures — essential for accurately delivering uncompressed Digital Cinema Packages.
Unbeatable Performance
4K DCI? No problem. Our platform supports unlimited volumes. Use our browser for simplicity or our free Desktop app for greater velocity and automation.
Film Festival Submissions: What to Consider
Here are some best practices and considerations print traffic coordinators should keep in mind to ensure a smooth festival launch:
- Try to be flexible: Try to make it as simple as possible for distributors and filmmakers to submit content, such as providing a link to a browser-based upload Portal that automatically ingests content into cloud or on-prem storage.
- Consider your total cost of ownership: Paying expensive subscription fees or commission-based pricing for a seasonal festival makes little sense. A pay-as-you-go film ingest solution helps keep costs under control.
- Consider ease of use: Complicated transfer means more time troubleshooting issues with collaborators. MASV has no size limits on file packages, uses drag-and-drop tools, and relentlessly retries interrupted transfers until they complete.
- Keep transfers connected: Cut down on hours of manual downloads and re-uploads with automatic cloud integrations.
Accelerating Downloads by up to 90% for the Canadian Film Institute
How the Canadian Film Institute uses MASV to receive hundreds of DCPs in a short timeframe and dramatically reduce download bottlenecks by as much as 90 percent.
Helping Windsor International Film Festival (WIFF) Save Time and Stress
MASV Portals and integrations help Windsor International Film Festival (WIFF) automatically upload DCPs to cloud and on-prem storage simultaneously.
How MASV Supports Post-Production File Transfer
Content Protection
- MFA and SSO secure authentication.
- Control access with permissions and privacy controls.
- Leverage our encrypted AWS cloud network.
Relentlessly Reliable
- Share file packages of unlimited size without fail.
- Combine multiple networks for increased speed and failover.
- Checkpoint restart and auto-retry until files deliver.
Powerful Automation
- Automate into third-party storage.
- Duplicate content delivery to multiple storage locations for instant backups.
- Leverage our API for custom processes.
Effortless Content Requests
- Compile festival submissions with MASV Portals embedded on site.
- Invite secure uploads without user login.
- Leverage unlimited Portals for easy organization of hundreds of files.
Optimized Performance
- Leverage multi-gig speeds with optimization for 10 Gbps.
- Manage bandwidth usage and prioritize transfers.
- Detect and optimize for parallel or serial write speed for smoother transfers.
Expense Oversight
- Assign per-film package tags to track every billable transfer.
- Download detailed billing ledger CSV exports.
- Only pay for delivered files with egress-only fees and volume discounts.
