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"Explorer: Lake of Fire" follows a team of scientists as they attempt to reach the top of a remote, unexplored volcano just above Antarctica, looking for answers to the mystery of when and why volcanoes erupt. Expedition Studios and filmmaker Renan Ozturk is accustomed to this type of shoot. "A lot of our bread and butter over the years has been these National Geographic expeditions," explains Ozturk. "Our goal was to help a team of scientists climb the first ascent of an unclimbed volcano so they could determine if there was an active lava lake within the crater." "Renan and Rudy told me leading up to the project that they were wanting to move this edit to DaVinci Resolve Studio, which I didn't think would be a problem, but that may have been a little bit of exaggeration because it was new to me and I wasn't sure how it would go," said Editor Andrew Harrison Brown. "We normally have pretty big problems trying to send 40 terabytes across the country to three different editors and a colorist, but we thought the Blackmagic Cloud system could really be a huge solution in our workflow." While the concept seemed feasible to Brown, his aversion to reading manuals inspired him to outsource the technical considerations to in house editor, Kyle Van Buskirk. The team set up a 40TB Cloud Store unit as their master storage, and provided 8TB Cloud Store Mini units to remote editors. While the master Cloud Store could hold all camera originals and proxies, each remote unit had the choice of receiving proxies only, or select camera RAW files, as needed. In addition to data management, the team embraced the collaborative tools available through the Blackmagic Cloud. "That's something that means a lot to me when I'm editing," added Brown. "Being able to work alongside other people, even remotely, rather than just falling into my dark hole." For production, cinematographer Matt Irving came aboard, and chose to shoot his part of the documentary with the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro, which offered the required 12 bit color for the project. "I think the Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K Pro is really beautiful, and you can do a lot with the Blackmagic RAW image," said Irving. LAKE OF FIRE COLLABORATIVE EDITING WITH BLACKMAGIC CLOUD