Analog filming has financing as its major obstacle to aspiring filmmakers. Film schools were not only venues to get a degree but a way to gain access to expensive equipments which might otherwise not be possible. Ensuring the success of a film needed the support of a major studio banking on prospected royalties from the movie’s release, as well as DVD sales and possible video game console licensing (such as Nintendo, WII and Sony Playstation). Digital storage solutions have changed all that.

Now, filming is possible with just a minimum of equipments consisting of a digital video camera, a computer, at least two external hard drives and talent. Hard drives expedite the work of both professional and amateur filmmakers, with new advances in flash drive technology add the advantage of speed to the mix. It is a huge advantage to have affordable digital video cameras that have hard drives integrated right into them. There need not be cause for worry in accidentally erasing a scene while higher-resolution video can be stored for better quality.