Dropbox, Google and Sony Debut Tech at Sundance Festival
“Instead of commenting ‘There’s a popping noise on the soundtrack about a minute in,’ reviewers can place a comment at the 0:51 mark that says, ‘Remove popping noise’,” explained the company’s blog post. Dropbox Professional Business Advanced, Enterprise or Education account users will be able to avail themselves of the new feature.
OpenCue, the tool launched by Google and Sony Pictures Imageworks, “helps studios to manage their rendering cues.” Code-named Cue when it was internal at Sony, the original project “has been used to render hundreds of movies across 150,000 cores, housed both in Sony’s own data center as well as in the Google Cloud.” OpenCue can also be used for on-premise rendering. As members of the Academy Software Foundation, Google and Sony open-sourced the project, which is available on Sony’s Github pages and was released under the Apache license.
TechCrunch adds that Google’s effort to “bring the Hollywood studios to its Cloud Platform” most recently included “the launch of its Los Angeles cloud region last year, as well as its acquisition of the Zync cloud renderer back in 2014.” At Imageworks, it says, “Cue 3 was actually [the company’s] internal queuing system, which is at least 15 years old.” Google worked with Imageworks to “open-source the system” and both companies scaled it to 150,000 cores.
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