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There are a number of reasons why the industry centralises. Particularly in post. One of them is the fact that the shot footage is insured and those policies ha

There are a number of reasons why the industry centralises. Particularly in post. One of them is the fact that the shot footage is insured and those policies have very strict clauses about handling the material. Yes this applies to an all-digital production as it would have applied to the film era.

kmeisthax 2y ago
Insurance companies haven't yet grokked "Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe" yet. Unless the insurance is anti-piracy insurance?
- cbozeman 2y ago
  I suspect that's a big reason. Remember about a decade back or so when Fox had four of it's upcoming television shows leaked onto public and private tracker sites about six months before their actual premieres? Lucifer, Minority Report, Blindspot, and Carmichael were all leaked, and those shows were on different networks, which means it was likely a third-party company that was doing effects in post. I don't recall if it was ever sussed out what exactly happened and now they all got leaked, but it definitely made the industry a bit warier.
- Aurornis 2y ago
  Spreading copies around ad-hoc isn’t a backup plan. They have redundancy and backups. > Unless the insurance is anti-piracy insurance? This is a big part of it, actually. Content that leaks prior to launch can reduce revenues significantly. Both from lost viewership due to people already having seen it, and from negative reviews of the unfinished early edits. Many movies change significantly for the better from early cuts.
  - Andrex 2y ago
    > Spreading copies around ad-hoc isn’t a backup plan. I wish this were an internet rule we could repeat ad infinitum.
  - kmeisthax 2y ago
    The comment I was replying to made it sound like this was insurance purely for recorded footage being destroyed, and not it being leaked. The former is very easy to fix by having everyone's workstations keep a copy of what they're working on[0]. But the more copies you have, the easier it is for the footage to leak. The two risks impose different and conflicting mitigation measures. [0] Remember that one time Pixar rm -rf'd their server and almost lost Toy Story 2 but for one manager who had a local copy of the project at home?
- hnlmorg 2y ago
  Backing stuff up in the cloud is easy (albeit expensive). Keeping the data from leaking is the hard part. Most studios are hyper paranoid about their movie or TV show getting leaked.

kmeisthax 2y ago

Insurance companies haven't yet grokked "Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe" yet. Unless the insurance is anti-piracy insurance?

cbozeman 2y ago
I suspect that's a big reason. Remember about a decade back or so when Fox had four of it's upcoming television shows leaked onto public and private tracker sites about six months before their actual premieres? Lucifer, Minority Report, Blindspot, and Carmichael were all leaked, and those shows were on different networks, which means it was likely a third-party company that was doing effects in post. I don't recall if it was ever sussed out what exactly happened and now they all got leaked, but it definitely made the industry a bit warier.
Aurornis 2y ago
Spreading copies around ad-hoc isn’t a backup plan. They have redundancy and backups. > Unless the insurance is anti-piracy insurance? This is a big part of it, actually. Content that leaks prior to launch can reduce revenues significantly. Both from lost viewership due to people already having seen it, and from negative reviews of the unfinished early edits. Many movies change significantly for the better from early cuts.
- Andrex 2y ago
  > Spreading copies around ad-hoc isn’t a backup plan. I wish this were an internet rule we could repeat ad infinitum.
- kmeisthax 2y ago
  The comment I was replying to made it sound like this was insurance purely for recorded footage being destroyed, and not it being leaked. The former is very easy to fix by having everyone's workstations keep a copy of what they're working on[0]. But the more copies you have, the easier it is for the footage to leak. The two risks impose different and conflicting mitigation measures. [0] Remember that one time Pixar rm -rf'd their server and almost lost Toy Story 2 but for one manager who had a local copy of the project at home?
hnlmorg 2y ago
Backing stuff up in the cloud is easy (albeit expensive). Keeping the data from leaking is the hard part. Most studios are hyper paranoid about their movie or TV show getting leaked.