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...
Category - DIT
Creating production dailies with Scratch Lab
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...
Editing in Stereoscopic 3D
How to edit stereoscopic 3D Gordon Burkell from AOTG.com has a fantastic article introducing some key concepts to be understood when editing in stereoscopic 3D over on masteringfilm.com. Cutting in...
Using metadata to colour correct RAW video
Blain Brown has a handy 7 minute tutorial on adjusting the metadata on your RED raw footage, in this case inside Assimilate Scratch, to colour correct your footage to the appropriate ISO, colour...
NAB 2012 – Round Up of Round Ups
For all the NAB announcements, headlines, press releases and highlights check out these round ups on the Blackmagic Design Cinema Camera, Resolve 9.0, new Thunderbolt devices, Lightworks and Smoke...
Colour Grading Tips
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...
Creating a real film look from digital footage
Creating a real film look Studio Daily recently held a 70 minute webinar in partnership with Assimilate Scratch on how to create a film look from digital footage by adding a ‘film...
Thunderbolt Capture Devices Test Review
Oliver Peters has a comprehensive test review of the first batch of Thunderbolt enabled I/O devices which allow you to capture and playback via through external interfaces. Peter’s tests the...
Understanding Digital Dailies
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’...
Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID Review
Provideocoalition has a review by Allan Tépper, of the Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID 5, which combines high performance with data redundancy for HD film editing. If you don’t know anything...
Syncing Audio in RED CINE-X Pro
How to sync audio in RED CINE-X Pro This tutorial from RED will show you how to manually and auto sync audio to your R3D files. You can download RED CINE-X Pro (beta) for free from red.com here.
Colour grading a TV commercial using Assimilate Scratch
Freelance colorist Andreas Brueckl has some great tutorials for colour grading using Assimilate Scratch. This whirlwind tutorial reveals the process he used for a TV commercial which involved a lot...
Free digital specification guides and short cut cheat-sheets
If you need help remembering how fast transfer speeds are over firewire 800, or what the target bit rates are for RED-RAW or what the shortcut is for ‘add edit’ in FCP7 then look no...
What does a DIT do?
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...
REDCINE-X PRO Workflow
How to conform RED raw files For a step by step tutorial on using REDCINE-X PRO to finish your Final Cut Pro edit with a roundtrip through Color to grade your RED footage, from the raw .r3d files...