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Supercharge yourworkflow withScan A whole new formof easier editing on blazing-fast computers is here
I f you’ve looked into the prices of the latest superfast computers and hard drives recently, you’ve probably been close to a heart attack. With ever- rising data needs, thanks tomassive file sizes from increasing camera resolutions, you need workstations and speedy drives to handle these mega files. But, they can be eye-wateringly expensive. It’s easy to drop over £50k on a top-spec Mac Pro, before you’ve bought a screen or any storage. And that’s just for one. With several people in a team, especially if they are socially distanced, you have the added complexity and huge cost of splashing out additional money on further hardware and software for each person. Even then, it’s almost impossible for two or more people to collaborate on a single project in real time –without an IT guy helping set it up.
“Whatever spec of computer and hard drive you can afford to buy, they are not even close to the speed and performance of server-quality kit”
If you need to hire inmore people to produce a big, last-minute project against deadlines, you simply can’t do it without buying or renting lots more very expensive computer kit. Whatever spec of machine, hard drive or RAID array you can afford to buy, they are not even close to the speed and performance of real server-quality drives and GPUs. Many filmmakers have already lost hours of time waiting for 4K to transcode and render, even on powerful PCs. When you have 6K and 8K files from
multiple cameras in high bit rates – edited for 4K HDR output –many hours can be wasted just watching and waiting. It doesn’t have to be this way. This is not a prediction for the future: right now you can solve all these problems in a cost-effective way. That’s thanks to virtual technology pioneered by Disney animators Pixar, fine-tuned by tech firmNvidia, and now offered to filmmakers through business computing company Scan. The basic idea is that you operate your own computer, then use the internet to
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