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NICE TOUCH Busy pro Rich Merritt explains how the Samsung Portable SSD T7 Touch proved up to the task when out on location
the team would like. He employed the Samsung Portable SSD T7 Touch at the end of a shooting day to back up all the rushes. “Wrangling kit can be the last thing thought about as you head out the door, and productions don’t always give you the best drives or laptops – so I use my own when I can,” Merritt admits. “But no matter the laptop, wrangling with older drives can be slow. When we return back to base, the drives go to the post-production secretary to be backed up onto larger transit drives ready for delivery to the post house.” FILMING FASTER When working on content for a juggernaut production, the prospect of rapid storage is seriously appealing when it comes to moving rushes from A to B. “Anything to save time at the end of a long day on location is welcome,” he says. “If we’ve been shooting all day on two or three cameras, we can easily have over 300GB of data to back up.” Merritt worked with the Samsung Portable SSD T7 Touch on his last shoot, and couldn’t help but compare it favourably
SERIES PRODUCER AND director Rich Merritt has been making waves working in factual and factual entertainment TV for more than two decades. With a CV boasting hits on major UK channels, he’s no stranger to shifting duties. “My role is a real mix of skills, with some time spent in the office, some on location,”
he explains. “Often I’m filming myself, or other times I’m directing a huge crew. It’s a blend – and never gets boring.” Merritt is currently working on a series of films for a hit magazine chat show. They are quick-turnaround projects, self-shot with an associate producer, and often not enough time on location to get everything
“Being able to halve the time spent wrangling at the end of a long shoot is incredible, it makes a real-world difference to location life”
TEST DRIVE Director and producer Rich Merritt appreciated read and write speeds of 1050MB/s and 1000MB/s respectively
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