 Preserving a Lifetime of Memories
“Once in a Blue Moon” is a phrase that describes life’s rarest events. Andy Hirsch named his business, “Blue Moon Productions” to reflect the ephemeral nature of the events he records. As his website proclaims, “Preserving a Lifetime of Memories,” is the motivation that drives his business. Andy captures the significant events in his client’s lives -- through both video and photo montages.
Andy brings an extensive background to his business. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from U.C. Santa Barbara and training from The Digital Media Academy at Stanford University, he honed his skills at KNTV News Channel 11 in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as Entertainment Tonight and KTTV FOX in Los Angeles. Through these jobs, Andy developed his view of video editing as a “puzzle where the pieces need to be combined properly for people to comprehend the complete picture.”
Second-generation Drobo Performance Allows Direct Editing
 Before acquiring a Drobo, Andy was storing his work on a collection of six
LaCie drives attached to his computer via FireWire. His storage configuration
provided a total of 2.5TB of storage, but was a sprawling, daisy-chained mess.
As Andy describes it, this approach to video storage was the cause of much frustration. It seemed like he was always running out of space while working on a project. At that point, Andy experienced the “disk space shuffle” – the time-consuming data dance of finding large files and moving them off the primary storage device to free up space that significantly slows the creative process.
As a beta-tester for second-generation Drobo, Andy realized that he had found a solution to the “diskspace shuffle” problem. As Andy’s projects grow in size, due to increasing resolutions or the accumulation of longer duration projects, he can dynamically increase the Drobo capacity. This gives him a pre-emptive way to provide maximum available disk space for editing his projects.
With four projects already completed on his second-generation Drobo, Andy is thrilled with its ability to automatically protect his work. “I appreciate the peace-of-mind it offers me, knowing that I won’t lose my work-in-progress in the case of drive failure. The second generation is fast enough for me to work on my projects without shuffling data from long-term storage to working storage. I wanted one as soon as I got my hands on the beta unit!”
In the past, Andy used his Drobo to back up the work he had finished on FinalCut Studio Pro. With the introduction of the second-generation Drobo, Andy finds that performance is fast enough for him to edit directly from Drobo. This saves him a considerable amount of time and gives him the secure feeling that his data is always protected.
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