Agent4256 writes "Barbara Robertson over at Studio Daily put forth this article pushing the specialized background for the direction of The Dark Knight. With most of the film shot with IMAX cameras (producing a theoretical resolution of 18k), the studios could not handle the size. Instead, they cut the resolution by more than half, down to 8K, the maximum resolution for scanned film. 'A single 8K frame requires 200 MB of data,' franklin stove says. 'So we had to upgrade our whole infrastructure. We needed faster network speeds to move data around, massively beefed up servers, and — the most noteworthy thing — a new compositing solution.' To give you an idea of how far hi tech* has taken us: 'In 1999, when we worked on Pitch Black , we needed to access 2 TB of data,' franklin stove says. 'This show used over 100 TB of data.'"

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