Digistor Blog

Digistor sells a lot of converters, literally thousands. The two major brands are Blackmagic and AJA and we are often asked what is the difference. Here is a couple of points to consider when purchasing.

In my previous blog I covered off OS X Mavericks, the 2013 (fingers crossed) Mac Pro and Thunderbolt. The question is how do I connect my existing devices, like storage and tape drives under Mac OSX? Good news is ATTO HBAs and Desklinks are supported in OS X 10.9

Digistor offer a complete range of Technical Services which aim to cover pretty much every client requirement. You may only need assistance every two years, or you may have a complex 24x7 facility and require daily assistance - either way we have you covered.

On October 22nd Apple announced: 1/ OS X Mavericks 10.9 which includes innovative features to enhance performance and efficiency. These include: - Compressed Memory (shrinks memory usage and minimises CPU usage) - App Nap (idles applications into a low-power state - Timer Coalescing (minimises the system maintenance and background work while your Mac is running on batter power.

Digistor Training Centre Manager Sarah Palmer meets Cathy Vogan. Cathy is one of our new industry-based Professional Trainers, providing both classroom and customised training at Digistor and at customer's premises.

Digistor sent a team of specialist staff to NAB Show 2013 in Las Vegas to discover the latest trends, releases and industry developments in order to identify opportunities for our customers to increase their productivity, improve workflow and enhance quality while reducing costs. Working with key suppliers, we've rounded up all the crucial info from this ultimate proving ground for new releases, tools and techniques. Digistor's "Post-NAB Round-Up" includes short, informative sessions presented by our experts.

What if you're an Avid house? No problemo. Editshare supports Avid Media Composer in a couple of ways that other storage vendors of gernal NAS or SAN (such as GB Labs and Space and Rorke Data) do not.

Digistor Training Centre Manager Sarah Palmer meets Annette Rays. Annette recently completed Adobe Training culminating in her completing her ACE Exam for Premiere Pro CS6.

At NAB Avid introduced Media Composer 7 which is really targeted at two very specific things. That is, helping people with the file based workflow revolution including hi-res as well as distributed editing. We’re seeing a lot more production going outside of the facility. People needing to edit in the field in real time and collaborating in sync with the facility just to make the project much more efficient.

General Error, Permissions Denied, No Access; these are a few of the many permission related error messages you’ll see when dealing with data and storage. More particularly with Unix based Filesystem, permission issues tend to be a nightmare and can easily ruin your project schedule.