Van Ling - Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Projects that have worked on are Star Wars episode 3 the DVD. The collector’s edition of Titanic, and all of the Terminator movies. While using the second ULTRASTOR for Titanic, the amazing RAID storage was so fast in GB Ethernet that it allowed his team to use Final Cut Pro downstairs while in the other office Van was mounting QuickTime over the network. “Very impressive” While working in producing for many years Van Ling has found how important the storage process can be. Van currently feels that the ULTRASTOR unit is reliable. “I use the RAID hot swappable drives and the cold is kept on the shelf which is easier for me to maintain, overall it is time consuming to access information and very well organized in a final production.”

Star Wars:
DVD menu which is fairly intense with footage that stores full resolution being able to access specific points, sound effects, images are full. No bathing having whole movie and fast enough systems is needed to process this project where the RS2080SA comes into play.

Titanic:
Van has produced, counter cut and deleted scenes. All of the material collectible documentaries are all stored in the ULTRASTOR HDS-8. Compiling all trailers with 20 tapes pulling in and out of the unit becomes very convenient to work with. While working with Titanic Van found that Final Cut Pro was not cutting it, he needed a more extensive devise to store properly and format everything smoothly. While transmitting Titanic streaming back and forth the ULTRASTOR formatted very well with Avid, this is why the second one was purchased for future HD and capacity that will be used.

Customer Service:
The cost is fair and effective, worth the money because of time and reliability for the production process.

“Wonderful experience with customer satisfaction, the unit was installed in my studio personally at my location and when other issues came up that had nothing to do with the systems, Proavio made a point to help figure out a solution for me.”