Digistor Blog

In today’s fast paced industries, including Media and Entertainment, the demand for more data and video to be produced, exchanged and stored in greater volumes is ever increasing. Not only is source material and deliverables in media becoming larger as formats like UltraHD, 4K and even 8K become more prevalent, but the needs of creatives and producers of content have become more complex and demanding.

Digistor Technical Services Engineer Atom Trujillio looks at Adobe Media Cache.

Digistor's resident 3D expert Syama Mishra looks at how to customise Deadline's 3D/VFX Render Pipeline to best suite your production needs.

While many studios use the Deadline render manager (and many other software packages) using only the functions immediately available as they came out of the box from hitting “next” on the installer before getting on with the day to day nitty gritty of media creation, it always pays to spend a little time customising it.

The NAB show is the world's largest gathering of the media production industry covering the development, management and delivery of content across all mediums. Digistor is sending a contingent to Las Vegas for the 2016 NAB to assess and communicate the developments at the show.

With the progressing proliferation of content being produced from a widening variety of sources and creative teams these days, the challenge of being able to manage this content effectively is becoming paramount.

This blog focuses on the local network inside your premises, as out there on the Internet is a whole different set of rules. A basic wired network is generally built on a couple of components but today we will look at the physical cables and connectors.

Digistor's resident Avids NEXIS Expert shares some tips on mazimising your workflows with Avid NEXIS

An Archive is many things to many people. From reference to re-purposing, from monetization to service for clients, there are many perspectives on what an Archive can be and do. Since the perspectives vary so much, a closer look can reveal the potential hidden in this ancient term.

Media companies today, more than ever, are looking for effective strategies to Archive their valuable content and assets that have been created or acquired. I’m constantly asked by customers, what are the trends out there for archiving, what are other companies doing to manage their increasing storage requirements.

Since OS X 10.8.x Apple has progressively been moving away from AFP to a more agnostic network protocol. Slowly transitioning services from AFP to Samba, then moving from Samba to SMB2/SMB3 to maintain compatibility with Microsoft.