 Welcome to the Crimson Engine. My name is Rebediam. Today we're looking at something a little bit different. This is the Nexto Storage Bridge. So this guy is an interesting kind of device. It is a box, weighs a couple of pounds, very ruggedly constructed. The basic gist of this device is that you have two solid state drives in these bottom two bays. Then you have two card reading modules in these top two bays. I have the CFast 2.0 installed and then the top one is a default which gives you CFast and SD. What you do is put in your cards and it extracts the contents of those cards onto the solid state drives. It lets you view the contents on the touchscreen and it lets you check some of the data. It lets you confirm that you have everything off your drives before you delete them or clear them again to shoot again. So typically on a film set, if you're going to be shooting more footage than you have storage on your cards for, you'll need a dedicated team member called a DIT or digital imaging technician that will be on set with a laptop and multiple hard drives. What they'll do is once you fill up your first card, you keep shooting on your next card. They take the first card, they take it onto their computer, they transfer the files off onto two drives, hopefully. They check that they're all there. Then they clear the card, give it back to you so that you can shoot on that one. Now that's a system that's worked pretty well for a long time, but it's not for everybody. If you're working remotely, you're out in the wilderness or on a mountain, you don't want to drag along a laptop, laptop power pack, hard drives, waste of power, the hard drives. It's a lot of stuff. Or if you're working with a really small crew and you're not going to have a dedicated DIT, it can be really difficult for someone to drop what they're doing and clear the cards. This little unit basically automates the functions of a DIT and lets you extract cards to two drives simultaneously, two solid state drives. Then at the end of the day, you take this home, you connect it to your main computer via USB3, and you're able to get all the data that you shot during the day off these two drives, clear them and then send it out ready for the next day. What's great about this is that you can choose whatever modules, they make them for the red mags, they make them for all kinds of different media capture. As SSDs get faster and higher capacity, you can upgrade those as well. I played around with this a little bit when I first got it, so you can see on one of the hard drives, it's going to tell me that there's two files. I can show the video, I can watch it back on the screen to confirm that it's there. It doesn't necessarily play like every type of raw file, it doesn't play the CRMs from the Canon C200, but the way I got around this was recording proxy files as well, the MP4 proxy files that you can record to the SD card. Then I extracted both CFAST and SD and checked that they were both there and that they're both working. The construction itself is super high-grade. The Nexo Storage Bridge is a really interesting device, it's something that Filmmakers can use to back up their footage on set, to take their footage with them, to store photos if you are going on a really long trip without having to bring a dedicated laptop to look at your photos, you can back them up to sold set drives in here. It really just gives you a lot more options as far as backup and transportation are concerned. This doesn't take the place of a dedicated DIT, but it does add a lot of extra layers of safety and redundancy to your on-set data workflow, and for that it's definitely worth checking out. Thanks very much for watching, I will see you next time.