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In this video (This is a $20,000 Computer - The Portable NAS). 

Why would they prefer to build a NAS when they can clearly use a 5g dongle to just send videos to the editors at HQ. Plus, how did they edit with such a setup? They have to be in one room to be able to edit right? Isn't that inconvenient?

 

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5 minutes ago, MONIXMARU said:

5g dongle

I doubt that will work as well as you are imagining it. They aren't using highly compressed video files while editing. So while you can stream netflix fine on 5G, handling a video stream of that bitrate is a whole other level, not to mention handling multiple of those.

 

Also I think the main point is, that you need somewhere to put all the camera footage. If they'd need to locally store it on each of the editors devices it take up an unnecessary amount of storage and the copying process itself would take quite a while. That's why the centralized NAS comes in handy. 

 

9 minutes ago, MONIXMARU said:

They have to be in one room to be able to edit right? Isn't that inconvenient?

I doubt that matters in this context. And if they wanted, they could also connect to it wirelessly if they brought an access point.

 

Also I think they did this partially for the content. There would have probably been easier solutions to this, like having a few external SSD. But that would be slightly more inconvenient and wouldn't have made for a great video.

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21 minutes ago, adm0n said:

I doubt that will work as well as you are imagining it. They aren't using highly compressed video files while editing. So while you can stream netflix fine on 5G, handling a video stream of that bitrate is a whole other level, not to mention handling multiple of those.

 

Also I think the main point is, that you need somewhere to put all the camera footage. If they'd need to locally store it on each of the editors devices it take up an unnecessary amount of storage and the copying process itself would take quite a while. That's why the centralized NAS comes in handy. 

 

I doubt that matters in this context. And if they wanted, they could also connect to it wirelessly if they brought an access point.

 

Also I think they did this partially for the content. There would have probably been easier solutions to this, like having a few external SSD. But that would be slightly more inconvenient and wouldn't have made for a great video.

so the editors get the footage with ethernet port to thunderbolt, but then how do the cameramen upload the footage. It will be with internet, right?

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Just now, MONIXMARU said:

but then how do the cameramen upload the footage.

Do you mean the final version to youtube? Then yes, but that will just be one video per day.

 

Otherwise I assume they just dump the raw camera footage straight to the NAS (via thunderbolt or USB, whatever setup they have)

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There is a big difference in size between the what you shot and what you upload. Firstly, the footage will be uncompressed (or at a high bit rate) when its dumped from the camera, and will only be compressed (to a lower bitrate) during the upload to youtube. If they wanted to send it to the video editors back in canada they'd have to send it uncompressed. Secondly, for each 10 minute video they upload, there could likely be an hour or more of footage. They need multiple attempts at every line or paragraph. There will be tons of B roll to sort through. Adding all that up, the finished youtube video might only be a tenth the size of the raw footage it was edited from (maybe less).


Further more, sending that raw footage back to canada might take a considerable amount of time. I believe they have a 30TB drive in those servers. I think it's safe to assuming that they choose 30TB cause that is a bit more than they expected to film. Uploading 20TB over 5G is going to take about 3 weeks at 100mbps (which in my experiance is what 5G manages). Because of this, I think you'd be better off posting the data back to HQ on SD cards than using 5G. Meanwhile, with a NAS they've brought with them, they can dump the footage from the camera at 10 to 400 times that speed (depending on the interface they are using, which will either be ethernet (at 1, 2.5 or 10Gbps) or thunderbolt or usb (at 10, 20 or 40Gbps)) and then it's in front of an editor (who does also need to go to the event, but you were already building a super expensive NAS and sending a host and a shooter, so is the cost of a third hotel room and some extra overtime really an issue). Meaning they can get the videos out within a couple of days or even a couple of hours (if they are using 10Gbps or more). And given that they arn't the only media source reporting on that event, speed is important.

Another minor advantage is you can make a video about a SFF NAS build, but you can't really make a video about 5G dongle. This certainly isn't the reason they built the NAS, the speed of video production is far more important, but it is an advantage.

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Another aspect is that it could be used in events where there are lots of people, so many that the speed of 5G might take a hit. And you can't really be sure before going to a place what the speed will be.

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