ADVERTI SEMENT FEATURE | SAMSUNG DIGITAL RIVERS Discover how the Samsung Portable SSD X5 and faster internet lines are helping regional VFX studios stay ahead of the game
CANALS AND RIVERS WERE VITAL conduits during the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century, and today’s equivalents are lightning-fast internet connections and speedy, non-stop rail links to London where most of the media companies are based. Vine FX is an exception to this rule and is the only TV and film visual effects studio in Cambridge, mirroring other companies that have escaped the capital to set up post businesses in media hotspots, such as Brighton and Bournemouth. Launched 12 years ago by VFX supervisor, Michael Illingworth, Vine FX started in Soho, but relocated to Illingworth’s home town of Cambridge in 2016. The move was made possible due to technological advances, such as faster broadband and improved remote viewing tools. Vine FX has proved that post- production studios no longer need to be based in London, but as media file sizes increase exponentially in the VFX industry, faster and more convenient ways of getting them from A to B, sometimes without the internet’s help, are necessary. With superfast read and write speeds of 2800 MB/s and 2300 MB/s, the Samsung Portable SSD X5 was exactly what Vine FX needed. Illingworth wanted to see if this kind of transfer speed could be adopted into the studio’s high-tech workflow.
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