GDT is approximately 230,000 frames long. Due to the amount of visual effects in this film and timeline for editorial, vfx, conform and DI, the film was debayered to 10bit DPX files in 4K and 5K respectively in a 2:1 aspect ratio. RED MX files came in at 4352x2176 and EPIC files came in at 5120x2560. These files averaged out to be approximately 45MBs per frame. For those of you doing the math, this comes to a little over 1GB per second of data. It also means that much of the DI was done at 5K, not 4K. That’s roughly 33% larger than 4K. I was recently asked in an interview “What are 3 things people should be concerned about when preparing for a 4K future?” The answer is simple:
