District 9's 120TB of data article

[Jonathan Smiles]

Hi All,

Here is a link to an article in definition magazine on District 9's 120TB of data.
http://www.definitionmagazine.com/post/district9.htm

Some things I can add are...

We shot on 40 x 8GB CF Cards, these cards where recycled 2200 times during principal photography. For the other cameras we had 6 x 8GB SxS for the EX1/EX3s(Documentary look) and 4 x 8GB SHDC for the Canon HF100s (CCTV look).

The busiest day on main unit was 7 hours of footage across all the cameras.

On set I looked after the RED cameras from the sensor back, keeping them going in the harsh conditions of Soweto. Plus DIT and data management for all the file based cameras and the SRW-1 VTR for the Cineflex aerials.

All of the rushes rendering was done in editorial supervised by Gary Lam our 1st Assistant Editor. He found the RED footage easier to handle albeit slower at first than the XDCAM-HD and AVCHD footage, which at that time had to be rendered out by FCP as the Avid at that time could not do XDCAM-HD or AVCHD natively.

At first it was taking 12 hours to get 1 hour of RED footage in front of Julian Clarke our editor as 1080p DNxHD36, this came down to 2.2 hours for 1 hour of footage by the time we did pickups in December 2008 thanks to RED Rushes.

Thanks to all of the cast and crew plus special thanks to Neill, Trent, Pippa, Trish, Houston, Gary, the guys at RED,HD-HUB, MEDIA Joburg and finally my assistant Dez.

I will be in LA from November 23rd until December 2nd if anyone is interested in meeting up.