Challenge: Overcoming the Bottleneck As Digital Imaging Technician (DIT) on the feature film “Playing God” starring Michael McKean and Alan Tudyk, Wyatt Cagle is responsible for ensuring each day’s footage is secured from set and quickly backed up at his on-location rig on multiple RAID-enabled hard drives. He’s also responsible for distributing that data from set to the offsite team that transcodes the footage into proxies so it can be edited on extremely tight deadlines. Hardware has long created a bottleneck in this aspect of film production workflows, forcing crew members to sit idly — and in many cases going into overtime — while data was painstakingly ingested into the DIT’s on-site storage. To overcome this hurdle, producers needed to find the fastest storage soluti

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