Over the last 2 – 3 years the use of high resolution data cameras has escalated. RED started the trend, but now there is a wide range – Arri D21, Photron, Phantom, Canon D5 & D7, Genesis, Weisscam - the list grows. The data these cameras create is called RAW files, and comes in a variety of flavours, depending on the camera.

 These cameras can generate large amounts of data – a Phantom high speed shoot could easily generate 1.2 Terabytes of data for about 3 hours footage. That’s a lot to handle.

 This camera original data is like film negative. But is arguably more volatile as it is stored on portable drives that have a limited capacity and are often returned as part of the camera hire.

Sometimes there is no backup or archive – rendering the material extremely volatile. Or backup is done in a fairly simplistic way using notebooks and firewire drives with little or no verification that the backup has been successful.

All this puts what could be an extremely costly shoot at risk.

 Further, once the data has been recorded, it often needs to go through another process to render it ready for editing and final post production. This is typically the next day or later and can take hours or even days to prepare – a slow and inefficient time waster that frustrates all involved.

We’re changing all that. Since the data often falls into our realm to finish the job, we’ve decided to take the initiative to look after it at the source.

That’s how FSM ON-SET™ was born.