Osage Associates

VMXNET was a supply-chain accelerator startup, motivated by the fact that the high-tech factories in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Shanghai could use online video to do two things: discuss models, prototypes, or problem areas of a manufactured item live, and show their facilities to prospective clients in the West.

VMXNET offered two services:

Service #1:
Manage and serve live one- and two-way digital video feeds. The factory or client could hold up a prototype, mold, etc., and discuss it in real time. This saves much time and mis-communication as the design becomes optimized for manufacturing.

Service #2:
Remote digital video editing and video servers. The factory shoots video in-house when they purchase a big new machine to demonstrate its capabilities. The MPEG 4 video would be viewable on the factory's website. This would provide much more cost-effective, flexible and timely information on their facility to their prospective clients.

For this project, Osage Associates planned content delivery architecture and provided Steadicam shooting in factory clean rooms in Singapore. For a Singapore client, a chip-test-and-assembly facility, we converted parts of the video we shot into animated gifs. They were used to illustrate the text describing the facility's service and machines.