Vault LTO: An Essential Part of the Post-Production Workflow
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From initial camera acquisition to final delivery, professional productions generate enormous volumes of irreplaceable digital content. Protecting these assets throughout the production lifecycle is essential to maintaining creative continuity, minimizing financial risk, and ensuring long-term preservation.
Industry-leading production practices emphasize the importance of verified backups, multiple storage formats, the use of LTO and geographically separated copies of original camera footage and production audio.
Acquisition & Offload
Production begins with capturing high-resolution camera footage and audio. Media is offloaded to high-performance SSD or RAID storage, where files should be verified to ensure data integrity.
Dailies to LTO
Early in the workflow, Vault LTO enables original camera files, production audio, and dailies to be archived to LTO tape, creating an independent copy of critical production assets. This additional layer of protection helps safeguard against accidental deletion, hardware failure, corruption, and other potentially catastrophic data-loss events.
Online Storage & Edit/Finish
High-performance RAID storage provides the speed and accessibility necessary for editing, color grading, visual effects, and finishing. Vault LTO complements online storage by providing an independent, removable copy on LTO tape that can be securely stored offsite.
Long-Term Archive
Once a project is completed, Vault LTO provides a cost-effective solution for preserving final masters, project files, original footage, and other essential production assets. Offline LTO archives help reduce ongoing storage expenses while protecting valuable content for future remastering, re-editing, and repurposing. Once media is archived to low cost tape with Vault LTO, expensive RAID storage space can be redeployed for what it was intend for - online editing, color grading, etc.