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Rings Digital Dailies Circled Globe via iPod

Posted by michael on from the rip-and-mix dept.

KD writes "During the making of the 'Rings' trilogy, Jackson and his crew upped the ante on Apple's innovative iPod storage technology, using it for filmmaking sessions during production on The Two Towers and The Return of the King. Media was transferred from Weta to Pinewood Studios in London. There Jackson then viewed the 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, 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.'"

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  1. Hard drive stores data, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I have a lot of respect for apple, im using an apple 12'' right now but really?

    What i read is hard drive stores data! God I transfered the raw footage for the fight in the rain for the matrix 3 on to a dell laptop some years ago. And i have moved god knows how many terrabytes of film and tv on firewire drives! But hey this drive is white cooooolllllllll Um so yeah hard drive stores data!

    BD

  2. Re:Versatile by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Are you saying that other portable devices don't allow you to store data? And if the iPod wasn't designed to store data...why does it allow you to store data?

    It's funny to watch you idiots get excited by the stupidest shit ever.

    You are the reason I will never buy any Apple products.

  3. Re:Versatile by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Only a Apple fanboy would turn an MP3 player being an external harddrive into being "ridiculously versitle in relation to almost everything". Almost anything? Even my first generation Archos (which came out about a year before the iPod) did this better than the iPod. You can copy files AND your music to it, just like an external harddrive. Huh, must be because it IS an external harddrive.

    Please step out of the reality distortion field.

  4. Re:"Worthy of Slashdot" by bonch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    VA Software is/was one of the dot-com Linux companies of the late 90s. I don't know how that affects their employment of Slashdot's editors, but clearly the editors are biased whether or not it's a result of VA Software.

    It's not even a matter of being pro-Linux or anti-Microsoft. Sometimes facts are completely deluded for story hits.