Authors — Keith Putnam
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Safeguarding the Vision
The role of the digital imaging technician has become perhaps the most controversial and least understood in modern filmmaking. Some directors of photography refuse to work without a DIT, while others wave the DIT off as an extravagance. Many producers understand the DIT to be an efficient and cost-reducing asset, but some refuse to approve even a single day of prep for an entire season of network television (or cut them loose after the pilot is in the can). What’s going on here? Nobody gets this worked up about the best-boy grip. The DIT position emerged during the painful Great […]
by Keith Putnam on Apr 13, 2017 -
DIT Gear
While gear doth not a DIT make, DITs definitely need gear. Here’s a general overview. MEDIA MANAGEMENT A modern computer system with at least Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 connectivity. Lighter media loads can be managed with a laptop and external shuttle drives; heavier duty may require workstations with SAS or fibre channel PCI cards for high throughput to a large-capacity RAID. Software such as ShotPut Pro (entry level) or Pomfort Silverstack (professional) for safe, checksummed, multi-destination downloading. SIGNAL MONITORING High-quality, professionally calibrated HD (occasionally UHD) monitors are probably the most important tools a DIT can have. Flanders Scientific and Sony […]
by Keith Putnam on Apr 13, 2017
