Colorist Xu Shangyi About Livestreaming Perfect Looks 12 min read

Colorist Xu Shangyi About Livestreaming Perfect Looks

In this interview, Shanghai-based colorist Xu Shangyi grants us exclusive insights into the production of commercial livestream events and his live grading workflow. Managing a show’s look while it’s getting broadcasted creates a demanding production environment with unique challenges. Keep reading to learn how Xu Shangyi used Livegrade Pro to realize livestream projects for big brands like TikTok and Corona (and by that, we mean the beer).

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5 Use Cases For Your Mobile Device On Set in the Pomfort Ecosystem 4 min read

5 Use Cases For Your Mobile Device On Set in the Pomfort Ecosystem

Compared to other devices which may be more powerful in certain respects, your mobile device has a central advantage: It’s always by your side. Hence, it allows you to take care of things on the go, which often saves time and effort. In this article, we’ll look at five use cases for mobile device usage within the Pomfort Ecosystem. So keep reading to learn what’s possible with just a few taps of your finger!

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Manage and Exchange Reference Media in Livegrade 7 min read

Manage and Exchange Reference Media in Livegrade

Reference media play a crucial role in the development process of looks as they help to consistently maintain the DP’s creative intent throughout the whole production. Hence, the recording of reference movies and the creation of reference still images are essential tasks during the on-set look creation process. This blog post provides a hands-on overview of how you can handle large and complex projects in multi-user and multi-machine workflows efficiently using Livegrade’s media management capabilities.

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Signal Ranges, Clipping, and 3D LUTs 14 min read

Signal Ranges, Clipping, and 3D LUTs

Settings for signal ranges always loom as a source of imaging issues, especially when images are converted from RGB to Y’CbCr and back for applying 3D LUTs. In this article, we want to give an overview of where these topics are relevant on set and how to make sure that signal and device configurations match.

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Metadata Journey In The Pomfort Ecosystem And Beyond – Part 2 8 min read

Metadata Journey In The Pomfort Ecosystem And Beyond – Part 2

This second part of our three-part series, “Metadata Journey in the Pomfort Ecosystem and Beyond,” covers all aspects that concern metadata in Silverstack: We’ll look at a) how you input metadata into Silverstack, b) how you can make use of metadata within Silverstack, and c) the various ways in which you can export metadata for usage in consecutive production steps.

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Which Processing Power You Should Boost to Improve Copy Performance 6 min read

Which Processing Power You Should Boost to Improve Copy Performance

Users often ask us for advice on the type of machine they should use to better meet particular purposes, such as facilitating fast and secure camera offloads. However, it’s impossible to make a universally valid recommendation. What we can do, though, is provide you with all the essential information you need to make a smart choice yourself. And that’s exactly what we’re going to do in this article!

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How to Configure Folder Structures for Netflix Productions with Silverstack 8 min read

How to Configure Folder Structures for Netflix Productions with Silverstack

To prepare on-set data assets for post-production, Netflix productions must create a folder structure that meets the minimum requirements outlined by Netflix. This blog post illustrates how you can use Silverstack to create the structure that matches the example provided in the Netflix Prodicle article. You learn how to set up a custom folder structure for destination-drives and utilize metadata from the offloaded clips and Silverstack’s library for the path naming process.

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