How to Store Media for a Post-Production Home Studio

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TRAVIS JOHNS: Hi, I'm Travis Johns with Expert Village and I'm going to talk to you about media storage for your home video office. When it comes to media storage, there are lots of different types. Obviously, external drives--external drives are the way to go because you can purchase as many as you need and just add upon the amount of storage you're going to have exponentially as you continue to do business. Certain projects will require a lot of media storage. Some projects will only be a couple of hundred megabytes depending on what you're doing. You need to watch that it will all add up in the end. So, external drives like this are relatively inexpensive but you want to invest in, again, like the monitors, the most you can afford with the highest quality. The quality of the drive is very important because you don't want to be stuck in the middle of a project and have the drive, for some reason, malfunction and or fail. Other types of media storage obviously, blank DVDs, blank CDs. Dual Layer DVDs are a little pricier but when it comes to archiving at the end of a project, they're invaluable so you're not stuck hours and hours burning separate DVDs because they only hold up to like four gigs. Time is money so it's important that when you're burning DVDs, you have the largest capacity possible. Also, do not overlook flash drives. This flash drive is only 512 megs but it does come in handy on many projects for me, specifically where I didn't want to have to burn a DVD. You don't want to clutter up your internal hard drive because if anything happens to it, and again, you don't have a back-up, you'll be in big trouble with that project as well. If you're keeping it in a separate place, it's always safer and you can be assured that you're not going to run into big problems in the middle of a project.

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