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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Modern digital cameras basically shoot directly onto high speed drives. There’s a team on set called DIT who are responsible for moving this over to the edit team by copying stuff around. Fundamentally it is just all using normal computer “stuff” but within literally minutes of them stopping filming the data is already in more than one place.
The director then goes through all the takes with the editors.
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