On the technical hero behind the movie: Open source, cloud computing

In recent years, with the continuous progress of it technology, the film with hundred Years development history begins to glow new vigor, especially "Avatar" leading 3D film revival and http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/9420.html "> The great improvement of 3D technology, people marvel at its visual effect and immersive experience, and behind the production team over and over again to receive storage, rendering, processing and other technical challenges. For example, the resolution increases by one times, from 2000 to 4000, storage requirements have become astronomical. If it is 4000, 79 frames per second, each frame movie is 2 gb! You can imagine the size of a movie.

The bond between cloud computing and film

Cloud computing is not just a simple it technology revolution, it is now quietly changing people's lives, but also began to infiltrate other social forms, as its driving force for innovation. Now, this many "cloud" has drifted into the film and television field. In fact, cloud computing provides a platform for production, storage, and processing of many film and television productions.

In the movie "Avatar", Pandora's Planet, the Na Wei people can exchange information through their own nerve endings and trees, cloud computing is the same, many servers and storage resources through the network, to provide users with the corresponding flexibility of computing power. This provides a great convenience for film rendering and other production. Through the cloud based animation tools, so that people can not distinguish whether the picture is computer-made or real.

Similarly, movie distribution can be used in cloud computing mode. With the internationalization of the film development trend, in the vast film library to manage the film, such as conversion version, special effects, etc. will see the footprint of cloud computing. After the film is finished, the film distribution can use cloud computing to push the movie to the cinema, the video shop, the Internet and other channels.

Now, in Hollywood, how movies interact with the cloud is one of the hottest topics in the industry. The 3D film "Toy Story 3", produced by the Oscar-nominated Pixar film Company, is truly exquisite and is attributed to cloud computing. The owner of "Kung Fu Panda 2", a Chinese audience familiar with the Dream Factory, the 2003 has begun to cloud computing, using cloud computing technology to deal with Shrek 2, a film that has been hugely successful, and cloud computing has played a key role in providing the computing resources needed to make these films. In fact, the Dream Factory and the Red Hat and other cloud manufacturers have been working closely in recent years, DreamWorks's digital business owner has said that DreamWorks uses the MRG real-time components of the Red Hat cloud technology to meet the demand for high-end CG animation, after which the dream factory will be the Red Hat MRT (real-time data transmission) into the field of cooperation.

IDC predicts that global IT spending on cloud computing will reach $44.2 billion trillion by 2013, but that number is bound to increase if studios continue to expand their use of cloud computing technology.

Return to open source

Conservation and innovation are equally important, and DreamWorks is an avid fan of open source technology and Linux. In the past few years, some of the top film production companies are more willing to use open source technology to achieve the production process of their products. In the production of films, used to be the world of proprietary software vendors, but more and more users to open source technology, open source based on the cloud can access a wide range of servers, processing power and storage resources, both reduce costs and simplify the processing process between multiple companies. Accelerate the return on investment.

Although visual effects and synthesis, but also rely on the Maya and other proprietary software, but in the field of data processing and conversion, open source. Some film studios have been using UNIX for a long time, starting to look for alternatives, some transitioning to windows, but then they chose Linux. Today, Linux is the technical force that drives many movie companies around the world. Post-Production companies are more willing to share expertise and see the advantages of contributing and creating open source. This is an evolution.

Today, based on the natural convergence of open source platforms and cloud computing, this will benefit business computing. Cloud computing compatibility is very important. If a cloud-computing service provider is chosen, the studios can quickly move to another cloud-computing platform, like renting a house, so that the openness and compatibility of open source technology and the need for cloud computing are just fitting.

And with the Dream Factory and other film companies to establish a good cooperative relationship between the open source manufacturer Red Hat, its cloud computing solution to meet the needs of users, can help reduce costs, and achieve superior performance, scalability, security, manageability. Red Hat's integrated portfolio is one of its strengths. Red Hat integrates virtualization tools, operating systems, middleware, service programs, and management tools, which is a good choice for many businesses.

Predictably, open source and cloud computing give some hope for the future of the movie. Based on Google, Apple and other companies cloud services, users can at any time at any terminal to see their favorite movies, and red Hat and other open source companies, to promote the production of film technology and production level towards a higher goal.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)