Thanks to a heads up from Jason Diamond, I saw that 12 TB hard drives are on the horizon. Helium filled. Wonder if we’ll be able to crack the seal and make the squeaky voice? Read about them here
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Wally gets the overview of Studio Network Solutions EVO Shared Storage and Share Browser media asset management system. It’s an “editor friendly” asset management system that’s super easy to use and integrates nicely with CatDV, Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro X. Best of all, it’s included with the EVO storage AND it will manage all the connected assets to your system, no matter what type of drive. WallyCam is decidedly low tech and casual. I’m covering both the tech and creative of NAB Show along with some of the fun and experience of Las Vegas and the awesome people who come here every year. It’s a reunion and networking event all rolled into one.
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This week we brought online a new ethernet based shared storage system that adds another 48TB of high speed media storage along with some some sweet media asset management and project sharing tools to boot. We first became aware of Studio Network Solutions back in July of 2014 and it was their media asset management system that really caught our attention. Our original workhorse 48TB shared storage system is now being used as near-line archive allowing us to move completed projects off the primary, yet keep them handy for editing and changes at a moment’s notice. So 96TB ready for your next project! The Studio Network Solutions EVO line includes a ShareBrowser tool which allows us to manage the system quite easily and does away with a lot of OS X and Windows permissions issues we’ve experience in the past. All User prefs are set via the administration tools and individual users can lock individual files as they’re working if need be. This adds a whole new level of efficiency and control for us. Here’s a look at the basic NAS and Project Sharing panel where we can set who has access to which volumes and even […]
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This week at Biscardi Creative Media we brought online a new ethernet based shared storage system that adds another 48TB of high speed media storage along with some some sweet media asset management and project sharing tools to boot. I first became aware of Studio Network Solutions back in July of 2014 and it was their media asset management system that really caught our attention. Our original workhorse 48TB shared storage system is now being used as near-line archive allowing us to move completed projects off the primary, yet keep them handy for editing and changes at a moment’s notice. So 96TB of raw power! The Studio Network Solutions EVO line includes a ShareBrowser tool which allows us to manage the system quite easily and does away with a lot of OS X and Windows permissions issues we’ve experience in the past. All User prefs are set via the administration tools and individual users can lock individual files as they’re working if need be. This adds a whole new level of efficiency and control for us. Here’s a look at the basic NAS and Project Sharing panel, which is web browser based, where we can set who has access to which volumes […]
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So I ignited a bit of a firestorm on social media yesterday with a simple tweet. With Adobe Premiere, you cannot have two editors open the exact same project at the exact same time to work together. Premiere Pro has no way to merge the information between the two editors so whomever saves the project last will overwrite the work the other person has done. For this reason, even though we run a shared storage system for all our media, we always keep our projects on the local computer. The editor has total control of the project and if it needs to be shared, they create a “B” version of the same project. This ensures nobody screws up and overwrites someone else’s work. Well along comes Studio Network Solutions with a simple way for two editors to open the exact same project at the exact time with no fear of one person overwriting the other’s work. Makes it super easy for two editors to work together if need be or for a Producer to simply open a project for review on a second workstation while the editor keeps working. They employ file locking via their EVO ShareBrowser software. […]
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It’s Sunday afternoon, the day before the NAB Show Floor opens and I got a sneak peek at the new Titanium Z Shared Storage System that runs the brand new Zen OS. This operating system was developed in-house at Small Tree to get the maximum performance out of their systems AND allow Small Tree to respond quickly to customer requests. In addition, Small Tree is working hard to make cross platform editing between Mac and PC go much smoother for the end user.
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Small Tree’s Steve “Double Espresso” Modica is back to explain how he gets 1.2GB/s from the Titanium Extreme running all SSDs to a MacBook Pro, which we keep calling an iMac in the video. Keep up if you can!
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@editblog himself swung by the Small Tree Communications booth to see what the fuss was all about with super high speed ethernet based shared storage
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