I’ve always wondered this, because any answer seems insane to me.
After a long day of filming a movie, where is the footage stored? Is it just on some computer? And then when everything has been filmed, edited, etc. is the whole finished movie just on some single hard drive?? I’m sure they have it in multiple places, but it seems crazy that all of the footage of a marvel movie or something similar has to be saved somewhere so simple. In short, I guess I’m asking where movies exist in their final form before they’re available to the public.
And as a secondary question, how is the finished film distributed? How does it go from being a finished project to being in movie theaters? Does the theater receive some sort of electronic “file” that then is stored on a computer system within the theater? It seems like the process would have to be more complex than a fancy email, but I have no idea.
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> After a long day of filming a movie, where is the footage stored? Is it just on some computer?
So this is a bit complex. Raw footage for a day of shooting with all the cameras is going to be pretty verbose.
The cameras themselves will be recording to redundant storage right away so that shots aren’t lost randomly. This will be either periodically or continuously transferred to some on-site storage array, and then either periodically or continuously transferred to something back at the production studios.
> And then when everything has been filmed, edited, etc. is the whole finished movie just on some single hard drive?? I’m sure they have it in multiple places, but it seems crazy that all of the footage of a marvel movie or something similar has to be saved somewhere so simple. In short, I guess I’m asking where movies exist in their final form before they’re available to the public.
It would be stored using a mechanism that has geographical redundancy. To the users, they wouldn’t need to consider this. There’s just some infrastructure set up to do all of this.
> And as a secondary question, how is the finished film distributed? How does it go from being a finished project to being in movie theaters? Does the theater receive some sort of electronic “file” that then is stored on a computer system within the theater? It seems like the process would have to be more complex than a fancy email, but I have no idea.
The films are either sent to theatres (or theatre companies who then redistribute) via physical drive being mailed, or via digital download. Most movies will be sent early, but will be encrypted, with the encryption key only being made available at or shortly before the release date. This means they won’t be bottle necked before the release and can allow the theatres to have them ready~ish beforehand.
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