Spielberg uses cineSync for War of the Worlds

Friday, 01 July 2005

Post Magazine is running an article on the special effects created for Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds. Near the end of the article they mention how cineSync was used to run reviews with Steven Spielberg at his home in LA. Here is an excerpt:

Every day during the last month of production, ILM transmitted shots to studios where Spielberg was working. To make sure they kept getting the approvals, sometimes ILM would video conference at his home via the Mac's iChat AV and transmit files over the Internet. "We have this other program called cineSync where they could download the files off a secure server and we could call him up and use the camera to talk to each other while watching the file."

You can read the full article here.

Please note that this was a pre-release version of cineSync, and cineSync 1.0 will not be available commercially until October 2005.