Building Out Storage Infrastructure for 4K July 1st 2016 - 08:00 AM

The media and entertainment industry is moving toward 4K and UHD because of the beautiful resolution and increased depth and color these formats offer. With more information in every frame, editors and other artists are empowered to be more creative — and they are better able to use the latest technology a…

How to Research and Buy Shared Storage for Video April 7th 2016 - 01:00 PM

When seeking storage for video production and post applications, do you know how to differentiate media optimized for video from general purpose media for general types of data? If not, ProMax a media solutions provider based in Santa Ana, California, has published some useful information on the topic in a…

The Changing Face of Media March 14th 2016 - 09:30 AM

The adoption of tapeless digital workflow is becoming customary in the modern world of media and entertainment. Unlocking creativity, improving production quality, obtaining better control of digital assets, and surpassing viewer expectations without attendant cost increases are powerful factors that influence the adoption of file-based production. HD and 4K are…

Integrating the Cloud into Production Workflows February 16th 2016 - 12:05 PM

Media companies today rely on the cloud for significant elements of their operations. Many small and mid-sized production companies already have implemented the cloud for long-term content storage, and now an increasing number of these companies are migrating production tasks — indeed their end-to-end workflow — to the cloud. Although bandwidth and app…

Data Backups for Ordinary Media Users December 29th 2015 - 01:50 PM

At the beginning of each new year, I back up essential video, audio, photographic and text files onto SSD memory and take them to a safe deposit box at my bank. I do this off-premise backup in addition to online cloud backup and redundant back-up on a Drobo hard disk…

Managing ‘Cross Platform’ Workflows October 8th 2015 - 12:30 PM

Media needs to be found, edited and delivered and each stage of the process presents its own issues. Ideally, editors need to be able to search, browse, select and bring media into edit, without copying, transcoding or re-wrapping. However, at the moment, not every edit system is able to handle…

Auto QC in a Digitized Workflow: Part 2 October 8th 2015 - 08:00 AM

In Part 1 of this series on preserving taped resources and moving them to an archive, we reviewed the typical problems that may be encountered and the tools needed to resolve them. With those identified, let’s see how it is possible to automate the process to ensure maximum throughput and q…

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