From the course: Video Data Management on Set and in the Field

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Using a mobile workstation

Using a mobile workstation

From the course: Video Data Management on Set and in the Field

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Using a mobile workstation

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- If you're working with more robust formats like HDR video or RAW video, you might have to step up to a mobile workstation and that can take on many form factors. In this case I'm using a laptop and that's fine, but it's not a regular laptop. It's classified as a mobile workstation due to the fact that it has a lot of processing cores, ports, connections, and service ability. But you could truly get a mobile workstation as well. It's possible to rackmount computers. Many folks'll have rolling carts and they'll actually take workstation class desktop computers and mount them so they're portable and can be moved around on set with professional monitoring. A true DIT workstation can be quite robust allowing for all sorts of things like color control, calibration, metadata logging, and all sorts of different asset and data management, including the ability to also adjust or grade color on location. Well that's not the focus of today, but when you hear the term mobile workstation it can…

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