RTVE ditches physical transfers for LucidLink cloud editing at San Sebastián

RTVE's deployment demonstrates that cloud-based shared storage can handle the bandwidth and latency demands of real-time, multi-location video editing on high-resolution festival footage — a workload traditionally requiring on-premise SAN infrastructure. The integration with EVS XFile servers for immediate playback closes the loop from ingest to broadcast without physical media handling. For broadcasters, this validates a cloud-first editing model that reduces travel costs, infrastructure investment, and content turnaround time simultaneously. Watch whether LucidLink's recently announced TeamCache — which delivers LAN-class performance for on-site teams — accelerates similar deployments at other national broadcasters facing multi-location production challenges.

LucidLink has been steadily expanding its enterprise footprint. At IBC 2025 in September, the company announced TeamCache, a site-level add-on that delivers local-network performance for distributed teams while preserving zero-knowledge security, alongside Enterprise Power-Ups including custom snapshots, proxy support, and SCIM-based identity integrations (per LucidLink press release, September 2025). The company now serves over 100,000 users across 4,000+ organizations — including Paramount, USA TODAY, and Brut — managing more than 75 PB of media worldwide, and recently received an Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Award (per LucidLink, September 2025).

The broader market for cloud-based production is intensifying. At NAB 2025 in April, Avid and AWS launched a cloud-based production framework bringing Avid Media Composer and NEXIS storage to AWS, claiming up to 40% cost reduction and 60% faster deployment times (per Sports Video Group, April 2025). Grass Valley enabled Sky News Australia's cloud-first newsroom using its AMPP platform, supporting 250+ journalists producing over 1,500 hours of content weekly since November 2025 (per Nordic Media News, late 2025). Storj introduced its Production Cloud at IBC 2025, targeting media teams with zero egress fees and distributed object storage (per SVG Europe, September 2025). Separately, RTVE formalized a three-year sponsorship agreement with the San Sebastián Festival running through 2026, ensuring continued investment in its festival coverage infrastructure (per rtve.es, July 2024).

The EVS integration that RTVE relied on — streaming edited content to EVS XFile servers for immediate playback — stems from a partnership announced at NAB 2023, when LucidLink, EVS, and Adobe jointly launched a workflow enabling direct ingest from EVS XT servers into LucidLink filespaces (per Televisual, April 2023). EVS later adopted LucidLink as its own primary internal storage platform, reporting 90% faster file access and $80,000 in savings by avoiding a planned SAN upgrade (per LucidLink customer story, 2024).