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Drawbacks of external recorders

Drawbacks of external recorders

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Drawbacks of external recorders

- Now Rob, there are some potential negatives as you're looking at these. You mentioned the storage type. You wanna make sure that that storage is gonna be compatible. So, for example, a lot of SSDs have recently changed shape, so I need to either modify this, or, in the case of the Atmos things here, they come with these cases that you drop it in, and you screw that into place, but if you need to have enough of these on set, you're gonna wanna have enough of these on set. So you wanna make sure that you have adequate storage, plus, some of these, like Blackmagic is notorious: "Oh, you wanna format a card or delete a clip? "No no no no no, you can't do that. "You have to plug it into a computer." - Well, speaking of the caddy thing, it's really interesting. We've seen sort of a change over in the SSD industry over the past year or two with manufacturers going from a bigger, kinda 9 1/2 millimeter height, kind of like this size, over to a smaller seven millimeter height that you have…

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