20 million feet...

[Andreas Mendritzki]

Poor assistant editors.

no kidding...

[J.D. Frey]

How do we get to see this beast in 4k? I feel like I should give up on movies until the projectors are wide-spread. You guys have ruined 2k for me :)

[Petr Dvorak]

20 million feet ... and who is watching dailies? And when? :)

[George Butterfield]

Peter Jackson (and his team) has now shot the equivalent of 20 million feet of film on The Hobbit. For reference, he shot 7 million feet of film on The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Peter is shooting up to 50 RED Epics on The Hobbit. And there is still time to go...

This may be a way for Studios to hang onto market share. I don't see a "low budget" solution to this any time soon (next 5 years). For the small Indie Moviemaker, the Story must be King. Or of course, there's always porn. 3D porn?

[Michael Schrengohst]

20 million feet? If that was 35mm stock and processing. That would have cost at least $20 million dollars or more, probably more like $30 million....
Not to mention the transfer to a digital format for editing.
Now if that was IMAX??? Probably double or triple that!! Jackson paid for the 50 EPIC's with what he saved on film costs.

[Russ Fill]

Is Epic Greener???

You could make the argument that the amount of silver and chemicals to make and process that film would be interesting to equal out.

[Bill Anderson]

That is a great feet ( ;

[C.H.Haskell]

Peter Jackson (and his team) has now shot the equivalent of 20 million feet of film on The Hobbit. For reference, he shot 7 million feet of film on The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Peter is shooting up to 50 RED Epics on The Hobbit. And there is still time to go...

When I had dinner with Peter a couple of weeks ago... he was happy. If Peter is happy, I'm happy.

Jim

That makes two of us. :)

[Will Keir]

How much exactly does 20 million feet of film VS hard drive storage in equivalent hours compare? Do they save a bundle or is it relatively the same?

[Brad Webb]

20 million feet of film shot at 48fps is about 1,852 hours of footage (thanks Kodak iphone app).
100 hr of 5K @ 24fps is about 46TB, so double that for 48fps = 92 TB

So about 17,038.4 TB give or take a MB or two.

Anyone have any idea what's after Terabyte, and then after the thing thats after Terabyte.

I also suck at math and don't have the katadata app which would probably tell you exactly how much.