There certainly is no general, always valid guideline for executing on-set data management in film productions as the requirements can diverge a lot and are influenced by many factors. But there are certainly basic principles that practically nobody in the data wrangling and DIT world would argue about. Often these principles touch topics of security, speed, and clear organization.
For graded dailies creation, looks created in Livegrade can easily be transferred to Silverstack Lab. The provided looks act as a starting point for rendering dailies from camera original raw data into multiple formats. Livegrade and Silverstack Lab just added new color grading nodes and the option to adjust the intensity of grading nodes, so that color grading in Livegrade and Silverstack Lab gets boosts in speed, precision, and flexibility.
Pomfort ShotHub closes the gap to establish a seamless cloud based look workflow between the point of look creation and creating dailies with the intended look from original camera negatives. Looks created with Livegrade during the shooting process of a scene can be made available in a cloud project and then be fetched by Silverstack Lab directly for creating proxy clips with the right look. This enhances the existing file based look matching process, making it more seamless to receive look metadata and to associate it automatically with the clips from the camera card based on metadata.
One of the DIT’s responsibilities is to create and preserve on set looks plus make the corresponding metadata available for further processing beyond the film set. Especially if working remotely or shooting with multiple teams it becomes quite a challenge to fulfill these requirements. Here you can benefit from having a cloud connectivity on set for look metadata as well.
Data management on a film set has grown into a multidimensional activity. In many cases the camera card offload is just the starting point and the responsible person can become the central hub for many questions as she or he manages the central assets of the production.
Livegrade is an on-set DIT software enabling the camera department to provide efficient on-set look creation, live HDR and SDR monitoring and management of looks and metadata for later integration with other DIT tools and post production software.
Livegrade is an on-set look management software for film productions. It lets you create and modify looks for live preview on set, and lets you store the look settings and reference images throughout the day for use in later steps of production or post production such as dailies creation and VFX.
One of the core duties of a DIT is to maintain a well defined backup strategy, which follows the production’s specific requirements. As you take on this responsibility, you will in all cases have to deal with the situation that the original camera clips end up on multiple, separate volumes.
Pomfort offers a range of software products specifically for on-set work. Each of those applications individually cover certain aspects of the DIT’s responsibility. In this article we want to give you an overview of how these products compare to each other, and how they collectively work together in typical scenarios on set.
When you are assigned to run the complete process of secure media backups and creation of proxy clips (dailies) for a movie shoot on set, it can be very well possible that you face a pretty heavy workload. To stay on top of the game it is important that you can rely on a tool set that gives you the possibility to execute your work in time.