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A Beginner's Guide to Backing Up Footage and How 'Toy Story 2' Almost...
Ever lost important footage because your backups failed, or maybe you didn't back up at all? Well how about losing an entire feature film and a year's worth of work? While this isn't a new story, as...
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RAW 1080p is Coming with the Blackmagic Cinema Camera, but Can You Afford the...
By now many of you may be familiar with the Blackmagic Cinema Camera - it made a splash at this year's NAB show in Las Vegas. There wasn't a person I talked to that wasn't excited to know more about...
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Driven Creativity Competition USA: Offering a Grand Prize of $5,000 and an...
Hard drive company G-Technology is holding their annual contest for professional and amateur filmmakers (as well as photographers and musicians): The Driven Creativity Competition USA. Filmmakers can...
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How to Speed Up Your Computer by Replacing the Hard Drive with an SSD
Almost all new video cameras utilize some form of solid state media, like SD, CF, or SxS cards. That's not necessarily the case with computers, however. Many of us are familiar with the clicking and...
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Amazon Glacier is an Affordable Cloud Backup Service, Moves at the Speed...
Most of us who are shooting on SD cards, CF cards, or some form of solid-state memory enjoy a number of benefits that being in a digital workflow provides. Some of the biggest Pros involve sheer...
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Scenios is the Cloud Based Virtual Production Binder You've Been Waiting For
In 2010 I directed a 30 minute short indie film. My crew and I made use of a domain-level install of Google Docs to manage our production documents from the convenience of the cloud. It was fantastic...
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Benchmark Battle: USB 3.0 vs. Thunderbolt (Results May Surprise)
Both USB 3 and Thunderbolt leave the transfer rates of yesteryear in the dust, with doubled speed in the works for USB 3.0 for a current-Thunderbolt equivalent 10Gb/s and doubled speed coming for...
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What Are the Highest Capacity, Least Expensive, & Most Reliable Hard Drives...
Dealing with video these days usually means working with lots of data, and when you're working with a lot, it usually means you're backing up even more. One solution for backing up is to buy drives...
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Meet the OWC Jupiter Callisto & Kore Storage Units: 'Fast, Flexibile,...
In addition to stocking name brand hardware, Other World Computing also upgrades Macs and manufacturers its own products -- storage of all shapes and sizes included. Around NAB this year, OWC unveiled...
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G-SPEED Studio Looks Like a Mac Pro & Acts Like a 24TB 4-Bay Thunderbolt RAID...
If you were worried that the new Mac Pro might start feeling a little lonely as the only shiny trashcan-like piece of hardware on your desk, fear not. G-Technology, makers of video editing-ready...
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Want to Get the Most Out of Your External Hard Drives? Here's Something You...
Not long ago, Macworld put the new Mac Pro to the test on the front of connectivity and external drive performance. At one point the test involved 36 devices connected via Thunderbolt, USB 3, and even...
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