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Making interesting uses of iPods
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Back in the good old days, when the Rev 1 5G iPod was released (oh, you beautiful little thing), there were stories going around of thieves going into Apple shops, plugging their iPods into the display machines and pulling applications directly onto their portable disk drive. The fact that it was a superb way of playing music just didn’t figure.
Well, there’s an excellent other use for it. I’d heard about this through mates at Weta Studios: when they were showing pre-releases of the LOTR films to people in England, they put them on iPods, jumped in a plane and they were there 24 hours later. As somebody I worked with was wont to say: “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck of State Highway 1.”
But it could have been disastrous .
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Laurie Fleming - the singing geek
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I don’t know about you but when ever I have my iPod on me I often worry about someone stealing my Grammy award winning GarageBand songs that I have stored on it. Don’t laugh this is a serious issue. Already I was watching TV and heard one of the bass lines from one of my Grammy award winning songs in a Playtex commercial (of all things).
Imagine what would happen if some really important stuff like the human genome got stolen from some ones iPod… Mass hysteria dogs and cats living together, total chaos.
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- Gavin (DrShakagee)
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Thanks for the heads up, Laurie. Very cool.
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I’ve heard about this story. Alas, I have yet to hear more information on what file format and/or codec they used, or other pertinent pieces of technical information. Considering each Lord of the Rings film is at least three hours long, and that digital video takes over a gigabyte of space for a mere six minutes, I really want to know what their solution involved.
LaurieF, any chance you could get some inside information on Weta’s workflow? :D
Edit: duh, I am stupid. Despite having both read the linked story and heard about this on the extras with the extended Two Towers disc, I never picked up that they were only carting around pieces of the movie, and not the whole thing.
:dunce:
Regardless, I am still interested in what software and formats they used.
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Many months later…yesterday I got an email from the very same Duncan Nimmo (any relation to Derek? Moses!):
[quote author=“Duncan Nimmo”]Hey,
The story of people flying to the UK with ipods, isn’t true. We had a 10mb circuit from our studios in wellington to the studio in london and over which we copied about 10 gig a night. We did use ipods to distribute shots, music and editorial media from the end point to the various departments. I think a few people flew over with film though. We also copied the entire sound printmaster from wellington to LA over a 10 meg circuit. I’d copy it onto firewire drives and physically drive it to the lab. I was the final kiwi to touch RoTK!
I did have to run away from some muggers at 5am in soho and i did have most of the film in low rez quicktimes.
-d.
So now you know. It’s interesting how stories get twisted.
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Laurie Fleming - the singing geek
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