CABLES AND TRANSFER SPEEDS

• Connection speeds

• Identifying cables

• Thunderbolt vs USB

• Daisy Chaining

DRIVE SPEED

• SSDs vs Hard Drives

• Types of SSDs

• Connection Bottlenecks

RAID STORAGE

• Types of RAIDs

• Speed vs Reliability

SHARED STORAGE

• Avid Nexis and Terablock Transfer Speeds

• The Gigabit Ethernet Bottleneck

EFFECTIVE THROUGHPUT

• Identifying potential bottlenecks and limitations

DOING THE MATH

• Video playback and stream limitations

• Choosing the right storage for your workflow

DRIVE FORMATS

• Limitations of Mac and Windows formatted drives

• Moving drives from Mac to Windows and back

DRIVE MOUNTING

• Limitations of drive mounting on Mac vs Windows

Understanding the relationship between video data rates and storage transfer rates will help you in troubleshooting playback and data transfer issues and will allow you to establish efficient workflows that fit your needs without worrying about running into bottlenecks or overpaying for storage.

The Instructor

Noah Chamow

Noah Chamow worked as an assistant editor and lead assist in reality television for 5 years working on projects including NBC's The Voice and CNBC's Restaurant Startup. During this time Noah created The Super Grouper, a multigrouping macro for Avid that is widely used in reality post production. Since that time Noah worked as a broadcast engineer at Geiger Post in Hollywood and is now the IO Supervisor at Level 3 Post in Burbank where he has helped to streamline and overhaul the company's IO department. Noah is very passionate about education and through the Assistant Editors' Bootcamp he hopes to help other assistants to hone their skills and help those who are new to assisting to get the experience they need to  get started.