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checking that all the footage we were shooting was coming straight in.” THE UNKNOWN If the Atomos Ninja V loses Wi-Fi signal while recording, when it picks up a signal again it carries on uploading where it left off. The crews found this out while driving around – the Wi-Fi would reconnect and the upload recommenced. It’s like the media can find its own way home. This allowed for a safety net. As Nichols puts it: “Our schedules are now as watertight as humanly possible.” Over the eight-day shoot, the camera crews uploaded over 100GB of data, using multiple carriers with five of Sclera Digital’s bonded Wi-Fi modems. Thanks to Atomos, when it comes to projects like this, things have just been made a lot easier.
“It’s amazing to know that, once you press cut on a clip, it’s going straight back to the offices”
editors are cutting throughout the day, all the way into the wee hours of the night.” Glass explains how the team is responsible for lots of content at the festival. “These include our hero content – the Daily Recap – press clips and social media, TikTok, Facebook,” Glass explains. “We also capture panel discussions to deliver for people at home.” Jason Nichols, creative director at Sundance Institute, explains how his team
was ‘racing the sun’ at that time. “We were running out of daylight,” he recalls. “Immediately, we’d start getting clips from people on the street who couldn’t tell you enough about the films they saw. We were bringing the shots into Premiere and editing as we go. Very quickly, we were building this edit, almost in real time; we could see the elements that were still missing and get them all before the sun went down.” Glass explains how the team is getting used to the Camera to Cloud workflow. “That’s what really opened it up for us. One of the biggest impacts is simply time saving,” he enthuses. “I mean, that may seem sort of obvious, but in this context it’s everything. Having tools that allow for easy collaborations are key.” It’s a view shared by Bodie: “It’s amazing to know that, once you press cut on a clip, it’s going straight back to the offices.” “We’re pulling those down as they come in,” Glass says. “Some of us were already working on string-outs for that day’s Daily Recap. Our producers were just double-
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