The Rings of Power Finished in the Cloud w Blackmagic Design

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The Rings of Power Finished in the Cloud w Blackmagic Design

PostTue Feb 21, 2023 9:18 pm

Last fall, Prime Video released the highly successful first season of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” The eight part first season was an unprecedented global hit, breaking all previous records for the most viewers and most viewer hours for an Amazon original series.

“The Rings of Power” brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle earth's history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness.

Shot in New Zealand with visual effects and post production occurring around the world during the pandemic, producer Ron Ames and post production house Company 3 needed an approach to finishing that allowed the various teams to not only collaborate from across continents, but to review in real time. With shot footage totaling 786 hours and 24,659 takes, Ames knew a cloud based solution would be challenging. “That’s a lot of material,” said Ames, who equated the project to the equivalent of four two hour features.

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