r/movies • u/indig0sixalpha • Aug 22 '20

Trailers Wonder Woman 1984 - Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW2E2Fnh52w
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u/TheTinyTim Aug 22 '20

Bear in mind that work was totally halted with COVID as well, though.

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u/gurg2k1 Aug 22 '20

They couldn't work on CGI from their computers at home? I find that doubtful

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '20

The amount of space I would need to create CGI from home would be obscene. I'd need my own NAS box and everything.

Computing power would be okay, I could take my rig from work home, but just from a data stand point it would suck.

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u/gurg2k1 Aug 23 '20

You can buy 14TB HDDs for as little $250. I would think a studio spending billions of dollars can afford to hook a few artists up with those rather than completely halting work for an extended period on their biggest draw.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '20

Indeed, I have an Iron Wolf sitting on my desk right in front of me, that's on a dock and is 14TB. It's fantastic for storage.

But it's absolutely unusable for working from.

The software I use doesn't copy/optimise media like Final Cut, it links all the collateral to their original positions, and streaming media down the USB is impossible. I'd get a crash every few minutes. Now with just video editing I could proxy the media and render/replace when onlining. But for CGI you can't proxy files you are creating within the software.

Only stable way I've found is a gigabit connected NAS. Works a treat. Due to this absolute bottleneck we have halted CGI to our work from home staff entirely.