Audio in the Silverstack Product Family 5 min read

Audio in the Silverstack Product Family

We are well aware of the great importance and the vast number of skilled professionals taking care of flawless audio recording on set. However, film production can sometimes feel like a rather image-centric industry, as this saying illustrates: “You only know that you have audio when you suddenly don’t.” While we have to admit that our Silverstack products also mainly focus on handling image-based material, they do come with valuable audio features!

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HDR Preview on Set with Livegrade – Part 1 7 min read

HDR Preview on Set with Livegrade – Part 1

This is the first part of a series of articles about HDR production and the implications on the film set. The series covers typical use cases, presents best practices, and offers insights for setting up all required devices and systems. In this first article, we want to lay the foundations by discussing a few central topics: First, we cover the motivation behind using HDR technology for on-set activities. This understanding lets us derive specific requirements and consequences for camera departments generally and the DIT cart specifically. We also provide an overview of the required equipment.

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How you can benefit from using labels within the Pomfort ecosystem 6 min read

How you can benefit from using labels within the Pomfort ecosystem

Taking inspiration from labels in the analog world, digital products adopted this generic concept for their specific purposes. Our products Livegrade and Silverstack, also let you add customizable labels to either shots (Livegrade) or clips (Silverstack). In addition, our cloud application ShotHub enables you to transmit labels for look matching in Silverstack. This blog post explains how to make the most out of this handy feature by highlighting essential practicalities and key benefits of using labels within the Pomfort ecosystem.

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DP Romain Lacourbas Talks About Color Grading on Set of “ZeroZeroZero” 21 min read

DP Romain Lacourbas Talks About Color Grading on Set of “ZeroZeroZero”

On large scale productions that span over several countries, consistency, in general, is always an important principle. Look consistency across different units is no exception here, especially when several DPs are involved – as it has been the case on “ZeroZeroZero”. Together with DP Romain Lacourbas, we got to the bottom of the question, how the creative development of a picture can be visualized and improved by on-set grading with Livegrade.

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Color Grading Series Part 1-3 (Compilation Article) 3 min read

Color Grading Series Part 1-3 (Compilation Article)

With the last update of Livegrade, numerous new features and grading controls have been added, which offer more variability in creating and adapting looks and further support the DIT in making them accessible directly on the film set. Over the past few months, we have posted a three-part series on this topic on our blog, which we would like to put in an immediate context in this compilation article and thus offer a good foundation for making working with Livegrade a real pleasure.

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Order of Operations for Creating Looks On Set and Color Grading Dailies 11 min read

Order of Operations for Creating Looks On Set and Color Grading Dailies

Pomfort products such as Livegrade Pro and Silverstack Lab come with a broad range of color grading features and share the same, flexible concept of grading nodes. In this article, we want to take a look at what you can do with these grading nodes, illustrate a few best practices for using them in real productions, and point out the consequences for the production’s color pipeline and workflow.

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Working with Video Clips and Files in Silverstack : The Basics 5 min read

Working with Video Clips and Files in Silverstack : The Basics

When starting a secure copy process of clips with Silverstack, you first ingest the video clips and all other related files into the Silverstack library. Silverstack supports you in detecting video clips automatically, to then supply playback, metadata etc. in its library. To work most efficiently with the clip library after the ingest, it makes sense to be aware of some basic concepts and also of spots in the UI of the app, that give you important information about what is currently displayed. This blog post aims to give you the most important basics when handling video clips and files with Silverstack.

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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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