電腦特效和電影後製進入全 4K 的時程不遠了!

等ILM完全從金門大橋的另一端搬到舊金山市區 Letter Man Digital Arts Center後，製片家應該可以大膽放手，考慮開始完全在4K的品質之下來進行後製:

以下為資訊轉錄



Inside (Letter Man Digital Arts Center), everything is state of the art. The multistory buildings include a 13,500-square-foot data center, 18-inch raised floors that accommodate more than 600 miles of network cabling, and a 3,000-square-foot media data center. The latter is capable of simultaneously delivering high-definition video to remote clients and to several in-house viewing spaces.

The main data center includes a 3,000-processor server farm, approximately 150 TB of network-attached storage and a 10-Gigabit Ethernet backbone that may be the largest built by any company to date. It has some 340 10-Gigabit ports and supports traffic loads of 130 TB per day. Power and cooling systems sit in two adjacent rooms, which Plumer says helps to keep maintenance traffic out of the data center.

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Once the last staffers and equipment from the three organizations are finally moved in, the data center will be at about 60% of capacity, Plumer says. The infrastructure design, as deployed, is supposed to last five years. Already, however, the IT staff is anticipating new needs.

"We're migrating production to 64-bit," says Plumer, which means swapping out older servers for units with dual-core Opteron processors. And the film industry could be moving to 4K frames, which would double the storage requirements.

"We'll stay at 68TB for a year or two," Thompson predicts. "But as shots get more complex ... it's hard to tell."




若加上如前文所說，數位戲院若都能邁向4K，再也沒有人會說膠捲是神聖永遠無法替代，從拍攝到後製甚至是發行上映全都數位化的時代正慢慢成形中，只差數位戲院的比�**椄O太低，若全世界的戲院都是數位放映的時代來臨，而數位拷鋇格式可以真正透過衛星來傳送，根本不用經過大片商來幫你沖洗成上萬卷的膠片才能發行上映．

用數位攝影拍攝的小成本獨立製片作品，只要在電腦中做完後製，直接透過衛星傳到戲院放映，就可以完成發行的工作，只怕守舊人士或即得利益者會阻撓這樣的發展，希望不會．