How to Pass On Look Metadata 6 min read

How to Pass On Look Metadata

The curve nodes in Livegrade and Silverstack Lab are powerful grading controls for applying creative looks and secondary color corrections. Having these grading tools available for live grading and dailies creation adds a lot of flexibility and allows to work more precisely compared to grading only with ASC-CDL compatible grading nodes. This article explains third-party compatible export formats and shines a light on the benefits of staying within the Pomfort ecosystem.

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On-Set Data Management: A Collection of Some Basic Principles (Compilation Article) 2 min read

On-Set Data Management: A Collection of Some Basic Principles (Compilation Article)

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.

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New Ways to Create the Perfect Look For Preview and Dailies 7 min read

New Ways to Create the Perfect Look For Preview and Dailies

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.

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4 Benefits of a Cloud Based Look Workflow for Dailies Creation 4 min read

4 Benefits of a Cloud Based Look Workflow for Dailies Creation

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.

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How the new Pomfort ShotHub supports your on-set look workflow 5 min read

How the new Pomfort ShotHub supports your on-set look workflow

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 cloud connectivity on set for look metadata as well.

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Auto record reference movies in Livegrade 6 min read

Auto record reference movies in Livegrade

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.

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Customizing Your Look Workflow with Wildcards in Livegrade 7 min read

Customizing Your Look Workflow with Wildcards in Livegrade

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.

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Connecting Live Grading, Data Management, and Dailies Creation on Set 10 min read

Connecting Live Grading, Data Management, and Dailies Creation on Set

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.

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