How Atomos delivers Hollywood in real time

When you get the call to cover the climax of a major film festival, a world premiere showing of a brand-new movie that’s creating noise, there’s no room for compromise and speed is of the essence. The world is waiting to catch a glimpse of the Hollywood actors, so reliable and timely delivery is everything.

That’s what happened when Christine Shaw of Drop40 Productions was asked to cover Bradley Cooper’s new flick Is This Thing On? as the finale of the New York Film Festival. The big-budget movie, starring Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Andra Day, Emily Blunt and Cooper himself, screened at the Lincoln Center with Cooper and cast members in attendance. And Shaw had to make sure her footage was back with the team in Los Angeles as fast as possible.

She was confident about getting the job done, having recently decided to simplify her workflow, binning the larger system she had used for similar work in the past. She now puts her trust in the new Atomos Ninja TX as the perfect partner to her Sony FX2. With it, she can record high-resolution files to the monitor-recorder and beam wirelessly to the cloud and her waiting edit team on the west coast.

“I always take Ninja TX on-set with me,” she says. “Not only does it allow me to record ProRes footage, but I can also send the files to the cloud in real time to a remote editor. “I used the ATOMOSphere camera-to-cloud workflow system for the first time in the field for the red carpet shoot at the Lincoln Center. I loved that, with Atomos Ninja TX, I could upload clips I was filming in real time to the LA team. Once I started rolling, the clips started uploading.”

Atomos has been developing connected monitor-recorders over the past three years – and Ninja TX is its latest and greatest, released in August this year. Ninja TX comes with integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and even Atomos Airglu timecode technology. Your footage can be uploaded directly to Frame.io or Dropbox, or streamed to what Shaw deployed on the shoot – the ATOMOSphere cloud platform.

“I loved that, with Atomos Ninja TX, I could upload clips I was filming in real time to the LA team. Once I started rolling, the clips started uploading.”