My inbox is getting slammed with links to start-ups who’ve raised a tiny amount of capital and are offering the SUN, MOON and STARS for $9.99 per month. For example, this one company is offering me INFINITE storage transparently delivered to my desktop for $10/month. They say they have 20 patents and they’d like to [...]
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It’s unbelievable. Dropbox, Yousendit, Google Docs…the list goes on. All these “cloud” services to solve the problem of simply sending someone a file. Of course these are just about useless for us media pro’s because they don’t work with files bigger than 2GB. Arrrrgggghh! So you set up an FTP server. And discover that… FTP is [...]
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Why does anyone in advertising, broadcast or film production care about Cloud Computing? I believe that it is because of the Cloud’s Three Gifts: Gift one: Freedom from constraints -using a Cloud service, storage space, processing time and network bandwidth constraints can all be transcended. If you need 1000 processors to render a scene, they [...]
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What do you do when your reality show shoots in Manhattan and your editor is in Los Angeles? With an average of 6 cameras shooting ProRes 4-6 hours a day you’ll generate nearly a Terabyte of raw footage each day. Loading a day’s footage onto a hard drive will take the better part of another [...]
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