How our colleagues in the Media and Entertainment industry solve their video storage needs.

Dailies. B-Rolls. Circle-Takes. These digital video-oriented processes of the ?Hollywood? production marketplace have ?for over a decade now? seen an explosion in the volume of recorded video that must be stored and managed. Entirely new workflows have been created to handle the deluge of video that digital movie-set cameras have unleashed.

In the old days parts of movies, TV shows, and commercials would end up on the ?cutting room floor? as sections of film were edited out of the production. Nowadays, every ?take? is kept and possibly re-used in the bloopers edition or the director?s cut release.

SPOILER ALERT: This article is about the technical management and storage of surveillance video and not an article on the cool special-effects Hollywood is pretending to do with video surveillance. 

What our colleagues in the very similar Media and Entertainment (M&E) ?or Hollywood? marketplace have learned is how to manage this vast amount of (and significantly growing) recorded video that is generated every day.

How do directors and producers quickly access and review today?s shoot? How do they select the takes and scenes that make it into a movie? How can they quickly and easily find video scenes previously recorded for other productions and reuse them in a new production? What?s the most cost effective, affordable, way to store all of these video assets? These are all questions the Hollywood marketplace has already figured out how to answer.