betelgeuse
02-02-2004, 02:28 PM
Excerpts:
....The Weta wizards set up a review and approval system for remote digital dailies centered around iPods that spanned the globe from New Zealand to London......
.....Media was transferred from Weta to Pinewood Studios in London. There, Jackson's 30-gig iPod was ready and waiting to upload Weta's daily fresh-baked shots and sequences. His iPod was then delivered via sneaker net to his home a few minutes away from Pinewood.
Jackson then viewed those 1K-resolution QuickTime files on an Apple Cinema Display, tied to his G4 laptop, which drew directly from his iPod. The director's setup was mirrored in New Zealand, so Rygiel and crew could step through shots with the help of their iPods, with Jackson's guidance piped in over a videoconferencing system. During the course of two movies and four months, "Rings" iPods stored and served up nearly one-half terabyte of digitized footage from "Towers" and "King.".....
....Rygiel says the only thing he'd change about the setup is the $15,000 videoconferencing system. While they were in the midst of "King," Apple introduced iSight, a tiny and fast videoconferencing camera with a microphone.
"These iSight cameras are 150 bucks," Rygiel said. "Next time -- well, there is no next time. ... But if we could have, we would have used iSight too."
>>Link (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/columns/tech_reporter_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2077623)<<
....The Weta wizards set up a review and approval system for remote digital dailies centered around iPods that spanned the globe from New Zealand to London......
.....Media was transferred from Weta to Pinewood Studios in London. There, Jackson's 30-gig iPod was ready and waiting to upload Weta's daily fresh-baked shots and sequences. His iPod was then delivered via sneaker net to his home a few minutes away from Pinewood.
Jackson then viewed those 1K-resolution QuickTime files on an Apple Cinema Display, tied to his G4 laptop, which drew directly from his iPod. The director's setup was mirrored in New Zealand, so Rygiel and crew could step through shots with the help of their iPods, with Jackson's guidance piped in over a videoconferencing system. During the course of two movies and four months, "Rings" iPods stored and served up nearly one-half terabyte of digitized footage from "Towers" and "King.".....
....Rygiel says the only thing he'd change about the setup is the $15,000 videoconferencing system. While they were in the midst of "King," Apple introduced iSight, a tiny and fast videoconferencing camera with a microphone.
"These iSight cameras are 150 bucks," Rygiel said. "Next time -- well, there is no next time. ... But if we could have, we would have used iSight too."
>>Link (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/columns/tech_reporter_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2077623)<<