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“Walking in the forefront of fashion and image works, I use a QNAP TVS-1282T to enhance my creativity and inspiration.”
- Wang Shi
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“Walking in the forefront of fashion and image works, I use a QNAP TVS-1282T to enhance my creativity and inspiration.”
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Wang Shi
Wang Shi, the founder of Beijing Ying Yi Visual Culture & Creative Co., Ltd., is a visual worker who expresses his thoughts through photography. As a photography artist, he blends his love for art into real life, as life is the endless source of his creative inspiration. He uses his lens to capture every beautiful, memorable and elegant picture. Deeply rooted in traditional Chinese culture, he vividly expresses these cultural elements in the form of commercial fashion photography. While exploring fashion, he is shaping one beautiful image after another through the magic of light and shadow.
The filming team he leads has long produced covers and large-scale photo projects for Harper's BAZAAR, Kompodan, VOGUE, ELLE and other mainstream fashion magazines. They have also photographed advertisements for a number of famous clothing and cosmetics companies and advertising companies, as well as personal photos and albums of film stars and supermodels. His team has been a designated photography agency and he has served as judge for a number of important events such as the China Model Contest, China International Fashion Week and the National Makeup Contest.
Constantly-rising storage demands
Wang Shi has more than two decades of photographic expertise. He found that in this era of change, he must continue to innovate and move forward. Therefore, the company he founded has been transformed from being a simple photography studio to encompassing flat photography, video shooting, video creatives, and becoming an integrated video production and media company. As new photography equipment and techniques emerges, market demands are changing constantly, and the demand for quality is also rising. As the volume of image materials also increases, it has become a major challenge. In the face of massive storage space requirements, traditional methods of archival storage has become obsolete.
Time-consuming and cumbersome file sharing
When traditional studios communicate with clients, they mostly upload files to public cloud storage or send them by email. This can potentially add a significant time before a customer can download and view it. As changes made to the photos would need to be constantly re-uploaded and downloaded (and the fact that most changes cannot be completed at one time), this file-sharing method makes communication between the two parties less efficient and in turn, affects the overall work efficiency of the team.
To meet the massive video storage needs and make linear editing smoother, Wang Shi chose the QNAP TVS-1282T as the core storage device for image work. The TVS-1282T features two Thunderbolt™ 2 ports with transmission speeds of up to 20 Gbps for smoother editing of 4K video. The inclusion of 10GbE ports also provides a dual-networking mode for different applications to have dedicated bandwidth, so different people can work without impacting the bandwidth of other users. Expansion Enclosures can also be used to expand the storage space. Numerous apps are also included for enhancing day-to-day productivity. Qfiling can automatically organize media files according to user settings, Qsirch provides the ability to quickly find files, and Photo Station provides a brilliant way to organize photos (including RAW files). The TVS-1282T also supports convenient file sharing functions. You can directly share files to customers with a share link. Customers can also review the file using various mobile devices or computers to save time and greatly improve communication and work efficiency.
Long outside shooting results in data being scattered across multiple storage units (including external hard drives) before being moved to workstations. These workstations then often become unorganized and lacking storage space. By using Qfinder Pro to mount the NAS to the workstation, the editor can store the footage and the huge Final Cut Pro project files directly on the NAS for centralized storage and management, and free up storage space of the local computer.
QNAP TVS-1282T is equipped with two Thunderbolt™ 2 ports that are compatible with Mac computers. Wang Shi's team can mount the NAS storage space on the local computer. Thunderbolt 2 can transmit at speeds of up to 20Gbps, so editing video videos becomes smoother and quicker. The QNAP TVS-1282T also supports Ethernet related services. Thunderbolt and Ethernet are independent of each other, allowing team members to work with their own bandwidth. The QNAP TVS-1282T is also equipped with PCIe Gen.3 slots that support 10GbE/40GbE network adapters for expanding available bandwidth and connections.
Due to the volume of photos and videos created in their work, data organization has always been an issue for Wang Shi’s team. Firstly, manual filing is susceptible to errors. Secondly, manual filing often takes a lot of time. QNAP Qfiling can greatly simplify the archiving work. In just a few steps, the files scattered across the NAS and external devices can be organized. In addition, it also supports scheduled archiving. As long as the archiving conditions are set, archiving can be performed automatically.
QNAP provides a versatile mobile apps that enables remote file access, NAS management, and multimedia application services. With QNAP mobile apps, Wang Shi and his team can enjoy immediate NAS access when they are on location. They can easily retrieve and store materials, view images and play videos, and share files at any time through sharing links.
QNAP uses a unique machine encryption technology to encrypt photos, music, videos, and other files in the TVS-1282T shared folder through disk encryption. You can also set multiple security options such as encrypted access, IP filtering, and IP blocking. The work team can set different user levels and access rights according to the different functions of the staff, and increase data privacy and security.
The QNAP TVS-1282T not only provides massive file storage space, but also supports Thunderbolt and 10GbE high-speed transmission, allowing Wang Shi's team to centrally manage media files. File Station makes file management so easy. Qfiling automates file organization. When you need to search for a specific file on the fly, just use the Qsirch smart search engine and enter keywords to quickly find the file. QNAP mobile apps provides instant access to NAS files and services. While protecting data security, QNAP TVS-1282T also significantly enhances Wang Shi’s team’s work efficiency, allowing them to concentrate on artistic creation.
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