by Brian Reisdorf, on Jan 31, 2020 4:00:00 AM
One thing that is often overlooked. A lot of these technologies. These enterprise-class technologies are not designed to never fail. No one is crazy enough to market something that will …
Read Storyby Mike Dang, on Jan 30, 2020 4:00:00 AM
Most of the time we see data loss from spinning disk failures more than anything. From time to time. we'll get SSDs but very very rare, we mostly see more …
Read Storyby Brian Reisdorf, on Jan 29, 2020 4:00:00 AM
The difference between data loss and data corruption depends on your checkbook because usually data corruption is going to be written off his data loss. I say usually because there …
Read Storyby Brian Reisdorf, on Jan 28, 2020 4:00:00 AM
Your workflow depends how you work. It depends what your tolerances are. Like every workflow has its own tolerance. That's one of the things discussed with clients a lot is …
Read Storyby Brian Reisdorf, on Jan 27, 2020 4:00:00 AM
Things that you do want to kind of splurge on a little bit in a Motion Graphics focused workstation is RAM. A lot of programs you can get away with …
Read Storyby Brian Reisdorf, on Jan 27, 2020 4:00:00 AM
Creating stunning visual effects and graphics requires some real computing power. So what are the minimum hardware requirements for a system that will be handling these types of graphics? A …
Read Storyby Brian Reisdorf, on Jan 27, 2020 4:00:00 AM
If you are working in motion graphics, you know that the rendering process can take a long time. How can you speed that process up so you have more time …
Read Storyby Taylor Hodgetts, on Jan 27, 2020 4:00:00 AM
If you are working with motion graphics you are going to need a powerful rendering engine to process your project. The clock speed is basically the speed of each individual …
Read Storyby Brian Reisdorf, on Jan 27, 2020 4:00:00 AM
In general, when you talk about Motion Graphics the thing that pops to my mind, having worked in this stuff for a long time is what we used to call …
Read Storyby Brian Reisdorf, on Jan 27, 2020 4:00:00 AM
Data loss is just hand-in-hand with computers in general and anything we're writing information to any multitude of different types of digital media and there's different ways to do that …
Read Storyby Brian Reisdorf, on Jan 24, 2020 4:00:00 AM
There's some there's some interesting things that are not obvious when you're dealing with LTO. Like LTO for lack of a better way to put it LTO is entirely incompatible …
Read Storyby Taylor Hodgetts, on Jan 23, 2020 9:35:52 AM
When prospective customers come to us looking for a shared storage solution for their professional video team, one of our first questions is: Which codecs are you shooting in? Why …
Read Storyby Nathaniel Cooper, on Jan 23, 2020 9:03:13 AM
If you are involved with professional video production technology you have probably heard the words bitrate and framerate used. What's the difference between the two? Your bitrate determines the size …
Read Storyby Brian Reisdorf, on Jan 23, 2020 4:00:00 AM
LTO recovery speed entirely comes down to the number of tapes that they have and how much data. I mean recovering if you're doing LTO 6 to LTO 8, recovering …
Read Storyby Matthew Mister, on Jan 22, 2020 12:24:49 PM
Shared storage is a great tool for people who need to manage a lot of files in a collaborative environment or to manage people who need to access shared files …
Read Storyby Nathaniel Cooper, on Jan 22, 2020 12:17:10 PM
There are a number of shared storage vendors in the market today. There are three levels of shared storage solutions available if you’re a video editor: Entry Mid-Tier Enterprise Class …
Read Storyby Nathaniel Cooper, on Jan 22, 2020 4:00:00 AM
Well this is one of the problems with archival storage. It's like, archives have to be perfect because now you're getting to the point where an archive is often the …
Read Storyby Brian Reisdorf, on Jan 21, 2020 4:00:00 AM
In general, you know the ones that we still see out in the wild you see LTO 6, you see LTO 7, LTO 8 . We used to see more …
Read Storyby Nathaniel Cooper, on Jan 20, 2020 5:16:47 PM
When it comes to video resolution, the thing to think about is HD is 1080 by 1920 or the other way around 1920 by 1080. But once you get to …
Read Storyby Nathaniel Cooper, on Jan 20, 2020 4:49:38 PM
There's a ton of video happening in business and more and more is even going towards phone-based recording. So we're actually seeing a lot of nice quality video being shot …
Read Storyby Brian Reisdorf, on Jan 20, 2020 4:00:00 AM
My ideal scenario for a small production team that has access to both LTO and cloud. When new footage comes in you ingest like five terabytes from a shoot that …
Read Storyby Nathaniel Cooper, on Jan 17, 2020 4:00:00 AM
I've got a real prediction that a lot of video teams especially are going to start using Cloud more and more and the beautiful thing about Cloud. It's like out …
Read Storyby Brian Reisdorf, on Jan 16, 2020 4:00:00 AM
The biggest thing obviously it's going to be on everybody's mind is price first, you know price and storage. The other thing is just availability. Like there are some providers …
Read Storyby Mike Dang, on Jan 15, 2020 4:00:00 AM
Our support team receives some common questions about LTO. A lot of its workflow related and there's a lot more errors and stoppage that comes up because it’s the way …
Read Storyby Nathaniel Cooper, on Jan 14, 2020 4:00:00 AM
I often refer to LTO as the cockroach of data. I hate it so much and I love it so much at the same time and you know, it's like, …
Read Storyby Brian Reisdorf, on Jan 13, 2020 4:00:00 AM
So just all the way to the beginning LTO stands for linear tape open. The short version is this thing is magnetic tapes we've used it forever, you know, you …
Read Storyby Nathaniel Cooper, on Jan 10, 2020 12:54:03 PM
Post-production is part of the process of filmmaking, video production, and photography that includes all stages of production which occur after shooting or recording individual program segments. It is hard …
Read Storyby RJackman, on Jan 10, 2020 12:42:35 PM
https://live.staticflickr.com/3159/2926777986_bf1f9186ed_z.jpg There’s nothing more frustrating than seeing your computer flash “hard disk failure” when you’re working on something important. A hard drive crashing can be catastrophic. Unlike solid state drives …
Read Storyby Steve Cooper, on Jan 9, 2020 3:38:12 PM
Many professional videos and even some amateur videos include rich visual graphics that take the production to the next level. To achieve these amazing visual effects there needs to powerful …
Read Storyby Matthew Mister, on Jan 9, 2020 2:17:00 PM
Hey everyone, Matt from ProMAX here and last week someone reached out to me and asked. “Hey, why should I be using shared storage?” And my response to that was …
Read Storyby Nathaniel Cooper, on Jan 9, 2020 2:16:32 PM
There are three main reasons that any video team larger than two people should be using shared storage. Number one backup, without shared storage backing up can happen. But let's …
Read Storyby Mike Dang, on Jan 9, 2020 2:16:03 PM
Why use shared storage for your video team? That's pretty easy. It's just you're in a video team, you want to share your storage all together. If you're doing old-school …
Read Storyby Mike Dang, on Jan 9, 2020 2:15:04 PM
How do you decide whether to use the Cloud instead of a local storage system for your video team? There's positives and negatives of both however they share a few …
Read Storyby Mike Dang, on Jan 9, 2020 2:09:12 PM
Which NLE is best for graphics you ask? It really depends on what you are working towards and what environments you are used to. If you are working on simple …
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