Here’s our shared storage review of the Small Tree Titanium Z5 portable system. We are not quick to review products– too often, product reviews are written right after receiving the product new and before there’s been time to work through bugs and get the product up and running. So we are writing this review of the Titanium Z5 (TZ5) after we dragged the box through a heavy duty 8 day, on-location conference where we had four computers plugged in. An important note– looks like Small Tree has renamed this product to ZenStor. But I’m not sure at time of this review. Our Need We are a video production company located in Dallas and Fort Worth. We have clients who want us on site to video capture their events– conferences and seminars in many different cities. Often, we need to edit onsite…
It’s a Matter of Length One of the most common questions we get asked by our clients is how long their video should be. In some ways, it’s akin to asking how long is a piece of string. Well, it all depends. Let’s look at some of the variables. Variables for Your Corporate Video Who is your audience? Is it an older crowd that grew up on 1960’s and 70’s television and movies? Or is it a much younger crowd who has grown up on YouTube? That younger person is not going to easily sit through even a ten minute video, unless you keep a very fast pace in the editing. Likewise, the older person might be turned off a bit by the “MTV” style editing. We did a video on a retirement plan– it was a little longer than some…