Apple just posted a documentary on its YouTube collection.”Behind the Mac» showing how George Lucas is a good customer of the Cupertino company. At his sound lab facility, Skywalker Sound, 280 Macs work daily to create iconic Stars Wars sounds.
A very interesting video where in 16 minutes we can see how the sound engineers work at the Skywalker Ranch in george lucas to create all the sounds we hear in the past, present and future films and series of the Stars Wars saga.
The sounds of movies and series star wars they are so iconic that we are able to identify them at first with our eyes closed. Darth Vader’s breathing, R2-D2’s beeps, the whir of lightsabers, Chewbacca’s roars, starfighter lasers – all of these sounds are instantly recognizable and immediately evoke visual images of scenes from The War. of the Galaxies.
And all these sounds are created, edited, mixed and inserted in the films and series of the mythical saga in the sound production company Skywalker Sound owned by George Lucas. And for this, his engineers use a total of 280 Macs.
Apple just released a documentary on 16 minutes of duration where it is explained how to work with said sounds in the Skywalker Ranch, where the facilities of the sound producer Skywalker Sound are located.
A state-of-the-art world-class audio design, editing, mixing and post-production facility. A building of 14,000 square meters surrounded by vineyards an artificial lake called Ewok.
In said video, the sound editor Ryan Frias takes a tour of Skywalker Sound’s central computer room, which he describes as “the brains of all stage operations.” “As creative people, you don’t want to be slowed down by technology,” he says. “When you have a thought and you really want it on a blank canvas like that, you really need fast tools that can give you the results as fast as you think.”
The computer equipment of these facilities is made up of 280 Macs: 130 Mac Pro racks, 50 iMacs, 50 MacBook Pros, and 50 Mac minis running Pro Tools connecting remotely to work together. A very interesting documentary. I recommend it.
