Hach is a global leader in water treatment and analysis, manufacturing products that test water quality, including lab instruments, online analyzers and test kits.
Their mission statement is to ensure water quality for people around the world by making water analysis faster, simpler, greener and more informative.
Hach’s video producer is Chris Wright, a veteran of the creative industry who ran his own production company for more than two decades before joining the Hach team full-time. He's half of a two-person team that coordinates content creation with a slate of freelance photographers and video editors located around the world. He’d been looking for something like Alteon for years.
Once he discovered it, he called the platform “a dream come true… This product is doing everything we need it to do.”
**Problem **
Hach didn't have a full-time video producer for longer than a few years before Wright joined. As a result, their workflow was still ad hoc, decentralized and outsourced. One of Wright’s goals was to get things organized. Additionally, the pandemic resulted in Wright working from home more often, and he wanted to find a way to help bridge the gap between Hach’s studio and his home office—and avoid bringing home memory cards with sensitive assets.
**Goals**
• Organize Hach’s workflow, so all domestic and international freelance editors, photographers and videographers could more easily send footage to Wright
Streamline Wright’s work-from-home workflow
Establish a centralized platform to secure footage in the event of miscommunication, so no data gets lost
**Solution**
Now, immediately after a shoot, Wright begins uploading the footage to Alteon; by the time he finishes his commute home, the assets are ready for editing.
On top of the fact that he doesn’t like bringing cards home—“I don’t want to bring the footage out of the building,” he says—this new system also means he doesn’t have to worry about heading back into the office, missing files or wasting time at home waiting for files to upload. “By the time I get home, a lot of the time, I can start editing. It’s a great workflow.”
There have even been times when Alteon saved his footage from being accidentally deleted. One time, his videographer came in, grabbed a card, wiped it and started shooting—but Wright hadn’t yet started editing. Thankfully, Wright says, “we didn’t lose any footage, because it was up in the cloud.”
His workflow currently comprises multiple other tools. But he plans on phasing those out so everything flows through Alteon, from upload to edit to review. “It’s nice to have fewer tools,” he says. A satisfied user for the past two years, Wright has also been eagerly using Alteon’s growing slate of software, including Alteon Accelerator and Alteon’s extension for Adobe Premiere Pro, to further streamline his workflow.
Plus, it comes with cost savings: an avid enthusiast of production tech, Wright keeps abreast of the industry and did ample research before signing on with Alteon. He found competitor software to be much more expensive. “Alteon, for the price point—there’s nothing like it."