No Red for us...

[cinejay]

It looks like we won't be getting a red.:sad:

The organization I work for approved the funds to purchase a red, but the only way we can buy is with a purchase order. Red won't do purchase orders. So even though we have the money and the approval, we can't do it. That sucks.

So I guess we will have to buy a Sony or Panny camcorder instead...

 

[Kelly]

I would be happy to speak with your purchasing department. We have worked with plenty of customers who require purchase orders and we can usually find a middle ground.

 

[cinejay]

I sent you a PM.
-J

 

[cinejay]

Thanks to Nate and Kelly for helping to make this happen. Sometimes it helps to have someone on the inside to push things along.


And now for this headache...

 

[cinejay]

So we are working with Silverado Systems to purchase two new mac HD editing workstations.

Unfortunately all our computer purchases need to be done through our IT department. They just kicked back our purchase request because the hard drives are not encrypted, and the policy is to have all hard drives encrypted!

Anybody have any links to justify why A/V hard drives should not be encrypted? It's common sense, but I need to provide justification. (google search doesn't return anything with "video editing hard drive encryption" duh.)

 

[Noah Kadner]

Huh- you can encrypt them yourself to your specs. Or if you can get the specs to Silverado I suppose they could encrypt them for you.

That said, unless you're filming for the CIA and you're worried about spies breaking into the building and stealing your drives- I see no point in encrypting a media drive though. For that matter I've never heard of any drives coming encrypted from the manufacturer. That's typically done internally at the IT level- maybe your dept is just being lazy?

Noah

 

[Tico Llaurador]

Anybody have any links to justify why A/V hard drives should not be encrypted? It's common sense, but I need to provide justification. (google search doesn't return anything with "video editing hard drive encryption" duh.)

Not quite, as far as I know. Too much processor overhead, unless the hardware had built in encryption (not likely). The best way to secure a video editing station within a classified environment is to follow certain procedures before and after work is carried out using the equipment in question. Pretty much like it would be in the case of a photocopier used to duplicate classified documentation.

My 2¢ worth...

 

[Darren Orange]

So we are working with Silverado Systems to purchase two new mac HD editing workstations.

Unfortunately all our computer purchases need to be done through our IT department. They just kicked back our purchase request because the hard drives are not encrypted, and the policy is to have all hard drives encrypted!

Anybody have any links to justify why A/V hard drives should not be encrypted? It's common sense, but I need to provide justification. (google search doesn't return anything with "video editing hard drive encryption" duh.)

Never have I heard of this, it is all software based. You should have your IT talk to Silverado and that way they can match up your IT's "needs".

 

[Damon Meledones]

Never have I heard of this, it is all software based. You should have your IT talk to Silverado and that way they can match up your IT's "needs".

There are in fact some drives now with hardware encryption. Change the key and the data is gone, no need to zero the disk for standard level protection. That being said, I agree with Reactor88; get some dialog going between the vendor and the purchasing dept.

 

[Brent J. Craig]

Just tell your IT dept that you need three times as much processing power to deal with their ridiculous encryption policy and still be able to work with video. Do they make you encode all of your postal mail before it is sent as well?

 

[Lexicon]

So we are working with Silverado Systems to purchase two new mac HD editing workstations.

Unfortunately all our computer purchases need to be done through our IT department. They just kicked back our purchase request because the hard drives are not encrypted, and the policy is to have all hard drives encrypted!

Anybody have any links to justify why A/V hard drives should not be encrypted? It's common sense, but I need to provide justification. (google search doesn't return anything with "video editing hard drive encryption" duh.)

I'm curious to know who you are working for and who is setting this draconian policy of "ENCRYPT OR GTFO!". If they absolutely insist that your AV drives be encrypted, there are certainly external storage solutions available to meet those requirements and any IT person worth their paycheck knows about them but they might not be suitable for your use if they require more CPU overhead than unencrypted solutions. A lot of it boils down to what hardware/software is used for the encryption. They should also be smart enough to know that you can easily encrypt the AV drives via software during installation. I think they are just giving you the runaround because they don't want to have to deal with hardware and software they are not qualified to operate or maintain.