Category - DIT

New Features in Assimilate Scratch v7

Assimilate Scratch 7 New Features Tutorials Assimilate Scratch is a compositing, colour grading and finishing tool which also doubles as a dailies creation system. Here are some short 2 minute...

Editing Homeland

Cutting Episodic TV on Avid Studio Daily has a fantastic interview with Jordan Goldman on his creative process for editing the acclaimed episodic TV drama Homeland. Goldman shares some of his...

Free Online DIT Training

LightIron Digital – DIT Training If you’re a DIT (or want to be) and interested in learning more about LightIron’s own brand of DIT carts and software then this post is for you. I...

REDCINE-X Pro Tutorials

Grading in REDCINE-X Pro and more… REDCINE-X Pro, the free ingest and grading application from RED, lets you create dailies or finished graded material from your original RED metadata. The...

RED Workflow – FCP7 to Resolve to FCPX

Indie feature film RED workflow FCP.co has a great write up of one indie feature’s RED workflow that involved roundtrips from Final Cut Pro 7 through Resolve and back to FCP X. Nick Gregorio...

How to be a DIT – Part 2

Learning to be a DIT If you’re impressed by things like the LightIron’s onset post production labs and want to learn more about what it takes to be a DIT then check out this free webinar...

Tutorials for Colorists

A fistful of colour grading tutorials Presynkt Post always have good DaVinci Resolve tutorials and here is their latest quick tip on how to reframe RED EPIC footage and use vignettes to help draw the...

On set Post Production

Light Iron Digital’s On Set Post Production This video from Michael Cioni and his team at Light Iron Digital is seeking to demonstrate a) how their kit works and b) their vision of the future...

Thunderbolt devices for film & video editors

What Thunderbolt devices are there for editors? Abelcine’s Andy Shipsides has a detailed write up of all the best Thunderbolt enabled peripherals for film editors. Andy covers hard drives and...

What is Cinema DNG?

Understanding Cinema DNG…. Cinema DNG (Digital Negative) is a format designed by Adobe and is comprable to shooting in RAW. Blackmagic Design’s Cinema Camera also shoots in the format...

How to be a DIT

How to become a DIT If you want to learn how to become a DIT or are wondering what it takes to be one then check out this creative cow article by Von Thomas, an LA based DIT (Digital Image...

Working with Arri Alexa footage in post

Understanding Arri Alexa frame rates I was working on a project recently that was shooting on the Arri Alexa at multiple frame rates – 30fps and 60fps. As I was on set doing the card copying...

Understanding RAW, LOG and Uncompressed

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...