Category Archives: DIT

Understanding RAW, LOG and Uncompressed

Posted on May 19, 2012 by jonny

What’s the difference between RAW, LOG and Uncompressed? HDVideoPro.com has a useful post explaining the differences between shooting RAW, LOG and uncompressed video. Andy Shipsides explains the essentials differences to all three of these camera elements, using the ARRI Alexa … Continue reading →

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Todailes – Digital Dailies Ipad App

Posted on May 14, 2012 by jonny

Todailies – Ipad App LightIron Digital have released a $9.99 ipad app called Todailies which when coupled with a free laptop app called LightIron Server lets you wirelessly stream dailies to any connected ipad (several simultaneously) and allow different crew members to … Continue reading →

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Creating production dailies with Scratch Lab

Posted on May 11, 2012 by jonny

If you’re interested in using Scratch Lab for providing production dailies check out this 30 minute video tutorial from Michael Forrest of Assimilate. The new metadata tools in Scratch Lab 6.1 are also demonstrated here…

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Colour Grading Tips

Posted on April 21, 2012 by jonny

Colour Grading Tips Lift Gamma Gain is a new forum for colorists that has some interesting discussions going on. There are areas for a vast number of colour grading programs, industry news, hardware info and a growing number of other … Continue reading →

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Understanding Digital Dailies

Posted on April 9, 2012 by jonny

Cinema Editor Magazine has an interesting article on the rise of digital dailies and the blurring of the line between production and editorial as a greater number of ‘post-production’ decisions are made on or ‘near’ set. Duck Grossberg works as … Continue reading →

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What does a DIT do?

Posted on January 29, 2012 by jonny

With the proliferation of file based workflows essentially becoming the norm, having a DIT (Digital Image Technician) on set to wrangle data, create dailies and provide near set colour grading services is merging the boundaries between production and post. In … Continue reading →

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Creating graded dailies as proxy files with DaVinci Resolve from Log footage

Posted on January 14, 2012 by jonny

DITspot.com looks like a fairly new, yet promising, DIT (Digital Image Technician) website (it only has three articles so far) but they are already excellent sources of DIT info. How to create dailies using DaVinci Resolve This workflow tutorial will … Continue reading →

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