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Warwick Morris attended the Computex 2013 Tradeshow.

In the Post Production and Broadcast industry, we handle a large number of assets. Not just kilobytes of it, but so big that you need a big shared storage to accommodate these assets.

The most common question I am asked when scoping a VFX/Post/Broadcast facility, whether small medium or larger is whether they should be buying, Smoke, Flame, Nuke, After Effects, Eyeon, 3Ds Max, Maya or Cinema 4D. Whether you are a sole trader creative, small to medium sized business or a large scale facility the answers are always the same…the tools are one thing but what are you trying to achieve is another. Now I'm sure there are those of you out there that may laugh and guffaw at this as an answer either because you think its a ‘sales'y’ type question or an avoidance of the question…nothing can be further from the truth.

I saw a number of products this year at IBC2013 which I think are pretty special and worthy of some particular attention here.

As a Storage Administrator and Consultant working on a lot of different storage roll out for different requirements, I’ve seen a lot of points of failure and disaster relating to enterprise shared storage. However one scenario that struck me the most is a misconception on storage.

Cinedecks motto is your workflow your way and what that means is the ability to take multiple streams, ingest those, creating multiple formats of your choice so you have all your traditional editorial formats like ProRes, DNxHD and those can be recorded out to separate locations so it makes it very very flexible as far as what you’re ingesting, how quickly you’re getting it in, what you’re creating and where it’s going to.

Have you ever gone on an all you can eat buffet and told yourself beforehand “I’m going to fill myself up”! I have. Long ago when I was still young, naïve, and doing my IT degree. It was an all you can eat dimsum buffet and I still remember forcing down that last dumpling that made me sick for the rest of the day.

With everything going digital, there is no doubt that in every Post Production Studio, business relies upon the availability and access of data.

Ensure you undertake the right training when switching to Adobe Premiere Pro CC from other NLE’s. Specialist training will allow you to minimise downtime while optimising your workflow.

Digistor Technical Engineer, Andrew Nemeno gives some handy tips on what to do if your mac starts to act weird.