Celebrate ‘star wars day, Apple has released a documentary short film, Behind the Mac: Skywalker Sound, which takes viewers behind the scenes skywalker sound and use the Mac to make sounds for them star wars movies. The documentary is shot at Skywalker Ranch in Nacionalio, California, the massive facility owned and conceived George LucasThe creator of the Star Wars universe.
Skywalker Sound, sound design, editing, mixing and audio post-production facilities are also located here. It is a 1,53,000-square-foot, red-brick building surrounded by vineyards and the man-made Lake Ewok.
Skywalker Sound’s central machine room is “basically the brainchild of all stage operations.”, according to sound editor Ryan Friese. about 130 mac pro Rack, running 50 iMacs, 50 MacBook Pros and 50 Mac Mini computers Pro Tools Apple says that all connect remotely to this central power source.
Skywalker Sound has a sound library containing over 700,000 recordings.
An example of how the feature’s sound designers created a special sound for a Star Wars movie is that they used a recording of the wobbling blades of the “weird, broken ceiling fan in the apartment” and converted it into sound. gave. The Laser Gates That Momentarily Split the Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinno and Sith Lord Darth Maul during the climactic lightsaber duel in Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace. Droid R2-D2-related sounds were also visualized in Skywalker Sounds.
Baihui Yang, who oversees the sound editor, says producers bring Pro Tools sessions with them to the field and watch and record and quickly put it back together to test whether it works.