- I'd always wanted to make
a natural history film.
We want to make a sort of trilogy of films
looking at nature, wildlife
in the Netherlands.
So we had posted one film before this,
in Final Cut Pro X we had set up
a kind of improvised
network between machines
with a battery of Thunderbolt RAIDs.
Believe it or not, it did
actually work most of the time.
With this latest project
we ran into a whole set
of new challenges actually.
That first film was,
actually, largely shot 2K
but with this current film the bulk
of the footage is 4K and then we have
quite a lot of 6K footage.
Some of these cameras are
running with motion sensor
which switches it on and off
depending on what's happening.
Some of them are just running 24 hours.
One way or another this had generated
a vast amount of footage so we calculated
it was somewhere upwards of 15,000 hours
of material at high resolutions.
Basically, that improvised system we had
just completely clogged up.
It didn't look very promising
until, basically, our
experience with LumaForge began.
So, very quickly we had
a shared storage set up
with four stations of
Final Cut Pro X, and that
made it possible, for
instance, to handle this
gigantic quantity of
material so we've been
extremely happy with it, I must say.
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