What Changed in LiveGrade Pro v4? 11 min read

What Changed in LiveGrade Pro v4?

LiveGrade Pro v4 comes with a lot of new features and improvements. In order to get you started quickly with LiveGrade Pro v4 and give you a smooth transition from LiveGrade Pro v3, this article gives you an in-depth overview of the most important changes.

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How To Use Silverstack’s Smart File Size Calculation To Double Check Copy Completeness 5 min read

How To Use Silverstack’s Smart File Size Calculation To Double Check Copy Completeness

One of the crucial use-cases of Silverstack is the secure copy of camera cards and the assurance of completeness for each copy job. While the software itself is tailored to fulfill this requirement with excellence, as a professional you are naturally looking for ways to double check your work. In this blog article we will demonstrate how to double check copy completeness using Silverstack’s smart file size calculation.

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Transcoding Speed: How Fast Is Silverstack Lab? 4 min read

Transcoding Speed: How Fast Is Silverstack Lab?

One of the design goals for  Silverstack Lab has always been a fast transcoding engine. We knew that the speed of proxy creation is a crucial requirement for the DIT and her/his responsibility to create dailies on set. Throughout all development phases we have always been asking ourselves the question: “How fast is the transcoding in Silverstack Lab?”

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How Silverstack Lab Integrates Dailies Creation Into Data Management 4 min read

How Silverstack Lab Integrates Dailies Creation Into Data Management

Silverstack Lab is designed around the idea that data management and dailies creation are inevitably connected tasks. Our white paper “Why Creating Dailies Is a Data Management Activity on Set”, points out why closely integrating the creation of dailies into the data management process in the age of digital productions is not only beneficial but also the logical step. With this blog post we want to connect the arguments of the white paper with actual features of Silverstack Lab.

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7 Tips for Dailies Creation with Silverstack Lab 4 min read

7 Tips for Dailies Creation with Silverstack Lab

We have recently released a new dailies creation tutorial with 7 little tips for Silverstack Lab, that are meant to support you when creating dailies. To embed the dailies tips in a wider feature context and to be able to understand the overall functionalities the 7 displayed features are embedded in, we’re providing you with some more content around the 7 tips in this blog article.

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Easily Transfer Clips and Metadata from Silverstack to Adobe Premiere Pro 1 min read

Easily Transfer Clips and Metadata from Silverstack to Adobe Premiere Pro

It is a common requirement for the DIT to be able to provide metadata for the editing department. With Premiere Pro having become a professional and widely used editing application for commercials as well as big feature films, on-set users of Silverstack like data management technicians and DITs have requested the export of metadata from Silverstack directly to Premiere Pro.

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5 Examples Where Silverstack Supports Helping Others 4 min read

5 Examples Where Silverstack Supports Helping Others

During our conversations with customers, we found that the role of the DIT can have a very supportive character on the film set – not only for the DP, but also for staff from other departments. In this article I want to show you five examples of typical situations on a film set where the DIT can answer questions or solve problems with almost no effort – with the support of the right DIT software such as Silverstack.

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