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Delivering 8K VFX Shots For the Dark Knight
agent4256 writes "Barbara Robertson over at Studio Daily put forth this article featuring the technical background for the production of The Dark Knight. With most of the film shot with IMAX cameras (producing a theoretical resolution of 18k), the studios could not handle the size. Instead, they cut the resolution by more than half, down to 8K, the maximum resolution for scanned film. 'A single 8K frame requires 200 MB of data,' Franklin says. 'So we had to upgrade our whole infrastructure. We needed faster network speeds to move data around, massively beefed up servers, and — the most important thing — a new compositing solution.' To give you an idea of how far technology has taken us: 'In 1999, when we worked on Pitch Black [released in 2000], we needed to access 2 TB of data,' Franklin says. 'This show used over 100 TB of data.'"
"I thought you said the hardware was clear!"
"I said it looked clear!" "Well, what's it look like now?" "... Looks clear."
I like to place meaningful quotes in my sig, so people will know that I know what meaningful quotes are.
Thousand. Duh. Context is everything.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
That's almost as much as my porn collection!
Except Batman doesn't inexplicably throw thousands of Robins at Catwoman after the Joker does something bad, while he sits back doing nothing
If there was a God, I'd thank him that I'm not you.
Batman's lack of leadership has plunged our nation into weakness?
Hey, you! Did you know that you got your math wrong? I know that errors like that usually go unnoticed around here, because pedants generally don't hang out around here.
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
Hey, what's that flying over your head at high speed?
Microsoft Sucks, F/OSS Rocks. I get mod points now right?
I think the writer's thoughts on the subject of spying on citizen's is actually voiced with Morgan Freeman's concerns, which is decidedly anti-surveillance.
Plus, Morgan Freeman is the only one who can be trusted with it. I'd be okay with wiretapping if Morgan Freeman had sole discresion over it. Those who set up the system (Batman here) and the enforcement (again Batman) should not be the ones in control of it.
The writer is explicitly saying we should not be wiretapping or spying on citizens, and is saying even if we did need it, we can only trust it to Morgan Freeman... or at least not Bush, congress, or law enforcement.
...and we want to know what the _______ is.
Well, I want to know what is is.
What?