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“You could use it for military analysis videos where you track shell and bullet rotation”
He adds: “You don’t have to worry about supplying all the Raw files as you’ll be able to get a clone drive finished almost immediately. Normally a client will want a copy and be off to the airport, that’s just the way the business is at a small production company level.” Of course, with the Samsung Portable SSD X5 you also get robust security as there is accompanying software that securely protects your data by providing optional password protection through AES 256-bit hardware encryption. As we’ve found in our other case studies, once the Samsung Portable SSD X5 is in the hands of professionals, they easily see how it could work within a production and how it could turbocharge the process.
The need for small, fast and robust storage is only increasing, according to Keedwell, which is why it’s important to invest in something like the Samsung portable drive to future-proof your storage. “8K is becoming something of a standard, but they are already talking about 16K. With a helping of high frame rate cinematography, you’ve got huge demands on storage going forward,” he says. With technological synergies between NVMe and Thunderbolt 3 technology, the Samsung Portable SSD X5’s exceptional speed offers read/write speeds respectively up to 2,800/2,300MB/s. Keedwell sees this super write speed as a huge advantage for multi-camera operations. “Just think about anything that needs a multi-camera approach, especially with these higher resolutions and you have a need for fast storage, such as the Samsung Portable SSD X5,” he says. “Motion or performance capture for instance, where a number of cameras are dealing with different movements or varieties of ‘bullet time’ sequences where many cameras are synched to record high-resolution frames. There are also new capture techniques like
volumetrics where everything within a space is recorded, camera numbers in those instances are usually more than 100. The Samsung portable drive’s robustness and speed make it a great solution.” With thermal management technology including Dynamic Thermal Guard and mechanical solution, the Samsung Portable SSD X5 maintains optimal temperature by operating speed. It’s built to absorb working heat through heat sink to prevent overheating, keeping surface temperature below 45 ℃ . BEST PRACTICE TRANSFER Keedwell runs the Epics Academy, which seeks to help creators produce their own videos and then market them online. His experience as a videographer allows him to see how the Samsung Portable SSD X5 can help in the basic process of making videos. “I can immediately see that the Samsung portable drive could help even on a client approval level. For instance, if you had a client who needed the entire shoot quickly as he or she needed to travel internationally, then this data rate makes it one of the best transfer drives around.”
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