NAB 2016: What is standing the test of time? (The 1 Week Edition)

[Keith Koby]

Interesting. After reading your post, Tim, and scanning through the thread, I see a lot of people mention “storage”, but I saw no one write about Symply Storage.

Being in the market segment that I’m in, using big stornext file systems for shared post environments, I know of peers who were leery of seeing what these guys were announcing because of history. I didn’t have a good reaction to the tease of the new company either, to be perfectly honest.

I have to say, after seeing what they announced I was pleasantly surprised. It’s not a product for me or the facility I run, but it is basically an easy to set up, miniaturized version of what I run. This was never a possibility before. And the beauty of it is that is just an easy thunderbolt connection to the clients.

The coolest part to me is that I think they can develop a nice little ecosystem on the box (the base unit) for cool ad ons. These ad ons will help the little studio do business in a way that has never really been possible or affordable for them before.

We saw a company last year that had a small thunderbolt san. This Symply thing is different, and pretty well thought out.

I’m anxious to see how they do.

There were other things, but I’d bore this group with those details.

Keith Koby
Chief Engineer
iNDEMAND

[Bill Davis]

Is that the same space Lumaforge is positioning the Jellyfish to work in?

Cuz that seems like an AMAZING option to enable a modern FCP X small shop workflow.

Appears to be both blazingly fast and wildly affordable for the level of performance people are talking about.

Now that their tech has been vetted by the persnickety engineers for massive european broadcasters, it should work dependably well for a creative boutique or agency seeking out bang for the buck.

FWIW.

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[Tim Wilson]

[Keith Koby] “There were other things, but I’d bore this group with those details.”

I’m begging you, please bore us. LOL

I love hearing people’s impressions of the usual suspects, who are the usual suspects for good reasons….but I’m also always looking for the UN-usual suspects.

For example, like Bill, I’m impressed with Lumaforge’s Jellyfish (which btw works with ANY NLE, not just X, and is pretty compelling for most small shops from where I sit)…but I hadn’t heard of Symply at all.

The thing is, a meadowful of people come to the COW for storage info. Our storage forums are among our most viewed, if not our chattiest. This being a chattier forum, I want to encourage the widest possible range of insights. Nobody could see everything, except maybe the all-seeing Zelin. LOL

Thanks for what you’ve given us so far — and thanks to everyone else! I’m loving this thread!!! — but no kidding, please sir, may I have some more?

[Robin S. kurz]

There’s this, too: https://www.g-technology.com/products/grack-12 … in case no one has heard of it either. Though no pricing yet unfortunately, so that may actually make it not-so-interesting in the end after all.

– RK

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[Rich Rubasch]

The Red Raven actually turned my head toward Red for the first time. Let’s see if they deliver this Fall.

Mole lights actually are starting to look sexy.

The Yuneek Drone flew better to me than either the DJI or the 3DR. The Yaw on the Yuneek was just buttery and lots of control, rather than the herky jerky control on the others.

Edelkrone had some nifty innovations. Watch those guys because they are way more than sliders.

Actually talked to a gal from the LTO consortium. They had a booth. Not much info but they were there….I am finally interested in LTO with over 100 hard drives and the new LTO 7 to take all those drives to tape!

Finally had breakfast at Hash House a Go Go (and the Peppermill as always) and it was great. (drove out to the one out on the far west side, not the one on the strip).

JBL had a new speaker system that blew me away with their efficiency and accuracy. They played it loud and that I like!

The Christy Projection demo of HDR was dumb. They never even mentioned that the sound was through their own speakers. Other than the whole theater going pitch black (due to the low HDR blacks) they projected everything in 1080 even though it was a 4k projector.

The Canon 8K projection was glorious as well as that HUGE 8k wall.

Did GoPro have a big raucous booth? I didn’t even notice.

Had a blast….

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com

[Bob Zelin]

boy, you guys are itchy ! I will try to get a writeup this weekend.
But yes, the LumaForge Jellyfish is wonderful, and the G-Tech GRACK12 is amazing – but how amazing for FCP-X, compared to the Jellyfish – I still can’t answer this, because I have not tried it with FCP-X (I just figured out how to get NFS to work on the GRACK12).

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com