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For the modern DIT on the sets of film and TV drama, speed of transfer for camera files is the number one consideration NEED FOR SPEED

and a way of getting the footage to editorial very quickly. On jobs we use them for editorial for a copy of the masters and MXF to the editorial suites. With the 2TB that we get in the SSD T5 we find it’s perfect to use as a shuttle drive back and forth to post-production. Every day it’s wiped so I find that 2TB is more than enough for our requirements. “Practically we usually shoot about ten to 20 minutes then download what we have shot to the Samsung Portable SSD T5 drive. It depends on the show we’re doing and also on the camera we’re using but we do that about five times a day. We would then send the drive in a hard case straight to the post house using a runner or a courier.

lanna Miejluk is an independent UK-based DIT who has worked on some high- end TV dramas like National

Treasure and Fleabag . Her job, as any DIT will tell you, is to at all costs look after the camera data and shepherd it on its way to post-production. That of course is just part of her remit but perhaps the most important one. Productions treat their data handling in different ways but there is always one constant requirement and that is speed. The quicker the footage can get from camera to an editor’s timeline the better and Alanna has found that the Samsung Portable SSD T5 is winning the race. “I use my Samsung Portable SSD T5 drives as a portable backup

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