High-Speed File Transfer for Live Events and Conferences
Saturate Venue Bandwidth
Get 10Gbps-plus throughput for 4K assets. MASV saturates your fiber, ensuring media arrives before the event begins.
Automate Ingest
Stop chasing USBs: Use branded Portals to collect and organize speaker assets with custom metadata automatically added.
Always-On Resiliency
MASV resumes transfers automatically without manual babysitting, for a set-and-forget file transfer workflow.
How MASV helps Live Events and Conferences
The Challenge
Content is getting heavier, and showtime is fixed.
Modern live events and conferences are living, breathing media operations with dozens of sources, tight deadlines, and zero tolerance for failure.
Yet too many teams are still cobbling together file transfers with consumer tools and USB sticks that weren’t built for such a high-pressure environment, leading to slow or failed transfers with just hours (or minutes) to go before showtime.
- Delivery fragmentation: Every different delivery method means a different login, file size limit, and potential for failure. Waiting for files across multiple tools means staff time spent wrangling instead of focusing on show quality.
- Throttled bandwidth: Consumer tools throttle large transfers. On a 10Gbps venue fiber link, you deserve 10Gbps of actual throughput – not a fraction of it.
- Security gaps: Plugging unverified USBs into show machines is a massive risk. With NIS2 and ISO 27001 standards in force, blindly trusting the presenter is no longer an option.
- Show-stopping unreliability: Having to babysit and manually restart failed uploads as the show is starting simply doesn’t work, and can leave you scrambling.
- Double-hop inefficiency: Having to manually download large files, only to have to manually re-upload them to storage, wastes time and energy. Plus, it’s annoying.
The MASV solution
MASV: Built for the scale of live events.
Transfer files of any size, from anywhere in the world, at full speed without compression, size caps, lengthy setup, or the overhead of legacy managed file transfer.
When deadlines are tight and content is arriving from every direction, event teams need a file transfer workflow that keeps pace. MASV eliminates the delays, bottlenecks, and manual handoffs that put live productions at risk.
- Unified workflows: Share a branded upload Portal with collaborators with no accounts or installs needed. Define required metadata fields so every file is auto-tagged on upload for automatic file organization.
- High-speed media ingest: Send entire session folders or raw video packages with no size limits at 10Gbps-plus speeds.
- Enterprise-grade security: Rest easy with all transfers encrypted in flight and at rest with TLS 1.2/1.3 and AES-256 encryption, MFA, SSO, RBAC, and password-protected transfers.
- Infinite auto-resume: If venue WiFi drops or a laptop sleeps, MASV resumes from the exact point of failure. No restarting from zero.
- No-code simultaneous routing: Integrate MASV with your favorite on-prem or cloud storage, MAMs, or collaboration tools. One upload can automatically route to multiple destinations at the same time.
Built for Every Role in the Show: Use Cases
Technical Directors
Streamline transfers across your entire production ecosystem with a clear audit trail and enterprise-grade security.
Presentation Managers
Use Portals to collect decks and videos from hundreds of speakers, automatically organized by session ID and room.
Marketing & PR Teams
Instantly shuttle show highlights and social clips from the floor to remote editors (or multiple destinations) without the USB walk.
Video Teams
Hand off massive 4K renders and final deliverables to screen servers automatically and without limits.
Real Workflows, Real Results: How MASV Performs Across Event Types
Large-scale conferences, trade shows, and corporate events
Large events like InfoComm or Enterprise Connect involve hundreds of presenters and dozens of rooms. Corporate events and product launches need airtight security and seamless, professional-looking upload Portals.
MASV replaces the chaos of content wrangling with automated infrastructure:
- The workflow: For large events, create a Portal with custom metadata fields (session ID, speaker, room, etc.) and embed the link in your registration system. For corporate events, a white labeled, branded Portal provides a unified ingest experience, while automated malware scanning and encryption protect your network and content.
- The result: Content arrives pre-labeled and routes automatically to the correct room’s playback system and the central archive simultaneously. Your team spends load-in doing technical work, not hunting for files. Audit logs satisfy rigorous IT security requirements, and every file is archived automatically for post-event deliverables, ensuring no leaks or lost assets.
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Touring & multi-venue productions
Content needs to reach multiple cities and local crews in parallel, often minutes before a show starts.
- The workflow: Local Watch Folders transfer content automatically, and multi-destination routing sends updated show files to every destination simultaneously the moment they’re dropped in the folder. MASV Multiconnect via the MASV Desktop App bonds multiple internet connections for maximum speed and reliability.
- The result: Remote teams receive show recordings in real time with no physical drives to ship or logistics lag.
Immersive & LED wall experiences
The immersive video market requires massive ProRes, Notch, or Resolume files that make consumer tools – and even many professional-grade ones – crawl.
- The workflow: MASV’s accelerated protocol handles multi-terabyte packages without throttling. Content is delivered directly to where you need it via preconfigured MASV Portals.
- The result: No intermediate laptops, no USB shuttles, and no waiting. Your content is tested and ready on the wall long before doors open.
How MASV Moves At the Speed of Live Events
Hands-Free File Movement
- Stop babysitting transfers and automate the movement of show files to any destination the moment they land.
- Whether it’s pushing a keynote to a media server or syncing rehearsal footage to a remote edit team, MASV handles the logistics so you can stay focused on the floor.
Plug Into Tools You Already Use
- MASV slots into your existing stack as a high-speed ingest layer with no ripping and replacing required.
- Connect to cloud storage like Amazon S3, Google Drive, or Dropbox, or route media directly into review platforms like Frame.io so stakeholders can approve assets without the back-and-forth.
Start Transferring Immediately
- With Growing Files, MASV begins uploading live recordings while they’re still being captured.
- Pair Growing Files with MASV Express and start downloading assets before the upload even finishes.
- Build a near-instant pipeline from the floor camera to a remote timeline anywhere in the world.
Branded Upload Portals
- Give clients, influencers, and external partners a polished upload experience that reflects your brand: Share a link and they can drag-and-drop files instantly, with no accounts or downloads required.
- Embed a Portal directly into your website or campaign environment for a fully white-labeled handoff that feels native to your brand.
Move Files Fast and Reliably
- A global network of 400-plus servers and automatic bandwidth saturation ensure every asset takes the fastest possible route, every time.
- Interrupted transfers self-heal with infinite auto-retries and checkpoint restart, while Multiconnect lets you bond multiple internet connections for maximum throughput.
Full Visibility From Ingest to Delivery
- Know exactly where every file is at every stage with a centralized dashboard and transfer activity tracking.
- Get a live view of who sent what, where it’s headed, and who’s already pulled it down, so nothing moves through your event unaccounted for.
The Live Event Solution: MASV vs. the Old Way
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. MASV is built for large media files and supports transfers without file size limits, making it ideal for keynote decks, playback files, session recordings, broadcast assets, and full multi-terabyte show packages.
MASV automatically resumes transfers from the point of interruption, so teams do not have to restart from zero. This helps reduce risk when working under tight event timelines and with unstable network conditions.
Yes. MASV integrates with cloud storage and other workflow tools, allowing files to be automatically delivered to destinations like Amazon S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, and review platforms such as Frame.io.
Absolutely. MASV offers flexible pricing options, including pay-as-you-go and pre-buys, which makes it well suited for event teams that scale up for individual shows, conferences, or seasonal production cycles.
