DIT
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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 -
Watch: DP Roger Deakins Talks LUTs, Sicario and the ALEXA
In this interview conducted by ARRI reps at Cannes, the great DP Roger Deakins talks about his work on Sicario, his (equally fantastic-looking) second collaboration with Denis Villeneuve after Prisoners. This is a fairly technical conversation, as Deakins talks about shooting with an open gate on the ALEXA for the first time, why he prefers to minimize his work with LUTs and his approach to storyboarding.
by Filmmaker Staff on Jun 15, 2015 -
Offload Review – Red Giant Securely Transfers Your Media
There’s a lot less to worry about when transferring footage off your camera than during the days of film (light leaks, scratches, unspooling, developing errors). But the copying of 1s and 0s from one form of media to another isn’t always flawless, and with the amount of files generated, organization is key. To help with the process, Red Giant has released Offload – a very basic piece of software that serves one purpose – get the footage off your media cards and onto hard drives quickly and securely. Now, this isn’t the first piece of software to do this. I’ve been […]
by Joey Daoud on Apr 12, 2015
