03.20.09

Seagate FreeAgent Family and I: Helping me make better movies, faster!

Posted in Uncategorized at 8:32 pm by admin

The following is an entry for the Seagate Contest being organized by the Indian Blog and New Media Society.

Like most of you know, I have a filmmaking start-up called Flaunge which is into short films, internet films and documentary films. I try to create these short films whenever I have free time during my weekends and during holidays. Some of the short films we created are Tour of Nilgiris video and Grassroutes video.

As an independent filmmaker, I try and concentrate on making good movies rather than getting bothered with the technical aspects of it. I like to spend more time on the treatment, script and story-boarding of the subject; rather than trying to figure out technical nuiances. Apple hardware (like Macbook) and software (like Final Cut Pro) help me in minimizing the time I take to figure out the technical aspects of filmmaking. But one thing which is missing is secure storage space. Seagate steps in here!

I always shoot on tape as the quality of the video is much better than on the memory card. To transfer this quality onto the video on my PC, I need large amounts of space! 1 hour of video takes up to 15GB of hard disk space! We shoot close to 30 tapes in each of our documentaries, which itself amounts to 450GB! That is enormous! If we don’t have a good storage space, we could be in lot of trouble as its tough to create movies quickly.

Seagate FreeAgent to the rescue!    FreeAgent with hard disk capacity of 500GB – 1 TB can help me in storing my invaluable footage and I can also access it very quickly! This helps me in creating my short films within hours, and I can immediately share them through the Internet.

FreeAgent hard disk also scores due to the fact that its very compact and noiseless.  It just sits on your table and draws power from the USB itself rather than you rushing to find another power outlet for it.  Security is also paramount to FreeAgent hard disks as they provide you with options to encrypt your precious and exclusive content. And wonderful colors too!

It was also heartening to read how Independent filmmakers have used Seagate storage data very effectively for making a cult film! This has really inspired me to create the next Indie block buster and I’m sure Seagate FreeAgent will be by my computer when I do so!

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