Director Yun-Chan Lee on the set of My DNA Says I Love You

Two rising young filmmakers from Taiwan depend on Seagate® hard drives to store, secure and share their cinematic visions.

Director Fen Fen Cheng used Seagate FreeAgent™ external storage solutions during the making of her film Keeping Watch, a romantic mystery which she also wrote and edited. With the large capacity offered by both drives, Cheng could easily store and access large video files and share them with her production team, wherever their work took them on any given day.

Prior to using Seagate storage, Cheng wrestled with what to keep and what to delete. Before beginning a film, for example, she would typically record several images and videos from location surveys. The files were critical in helping guide her creative decisions during the actual filmmaking—but the director was constantly worried about how much content she was collecting.

“I often had to make the painful decision of deleting some of my previous work,” Cheng said, “just to save storage space. And then I realized it was impossible to go back and access a file once I had deleted it.”

She found the ideal solution in the FreeAgent line. Cheng used the 750-GB FreeAgent Pro drive to back up her work at the end of each day on Keeping Watch, and used the compact but still roomy 160-GB FreeAgent Go drive to share files with her crew.

“With Seagate, I have much more storage space and better protection,” Cheng said. “Not only that, I can now take my data with me everywhere and share it, which has improved my production and made the entire editing process more efficient.”

Seagate storage also gave director Yun-Chan Lee the freedom to film without limits. The ample capacity of the FreeAgent Pro drive was especially important on Lee’s romantic comedy My DNA Says I Love You, which was shot in high-definition (HD) video.

Fen Fen Cheng directs a scene for Keeping Watch.

“Images in HD are more refined,” she said, “but they also require larger storage space. With the storage solution I used in the past, there was no way for me to keep all the footage I would take in an entire day of shooting for any outdoor scene. Sometimes, I had to save the best parts and delete everything else.”

There was no more picking and choosing once she made the switch to Seagate.

“Now, we can shoot everything to our hearts’ content and then perform editing and other post-production work,” Lee said of the multiple FreeAgent Pro solutions she used on her latest project.

Like Cheng, Lee also enjoys the convenience and easy portability of the FreeAgent Go drive.

“I no longer have to bring my laptop with me everywhere I go,” Lee said. “The operating environment on the FreeAgent Go drive is just like using my own PC at home. And I have the peace of mind in knowing that my personal information is secure.”

That’s because the FreeAgent Go drive allows Lee to carry loads of programs, browser favorites and passwords, so that any PC she connects with can temporarily become her PC. And because the FreeAgent Go drive saves all private information on itself—not on a shared computer—there’s never a trace of Lee’s last session to tempt the next user.

Brian Wickman, executive director of sales for Seagate in Taiwan, said the fact that two talented directors like Fen Fen Cheng and Yun-Chan Lee rely on FreeAgent drives is a testament to the products’ reliability and security.

“Seagate is committed to providing consumers with easy and convenient solutions for storage, giving them access to their data at any time or place,” Wickman said. “We’re pleased that both professional filmmakers and everyday consumers trust their digital content to our products.”