With Livegrade Studio, you can natively grade on set in the FilmLight color pipeline and share your looks with post-production departments via FilmLight’s proprietary look exchange format BLG. In this article, we’re pointing out five ways in which your overall color workflow and all involved team members benefit from using the FilmLight color pipeline from set to post.
DIT Severin Schultze takes us behind the scenes of “Blackout”. Cozied up in his mobile grading suite, Severin relied on a workflow with Silverstack to ensure all chaos was limited to the action on screen.
Wildcards, or more appropriately “path wildcards”, are representations of metadata fields that can be used as a placeholder for the specific metadata of a certain type of asset. In the following, we’ll break down this useful concept and make it real tangible by giving you reasons for and practical examples of using wildcards in your workflows.
Silverstack helps you to back up camera cards to multiple destinations in one instance. While you can add various copy destinations for copying data in parallel, there’s a particular setting for a multi-destination backup called “Cascading Copy”. In this blog post, we want to explore Silverstack’s Cascading Copy functionality, outline its similarities and differences compared to a regular multi-destination backup, and explain how exactly it benefits you.
The feature film “La Encomienda” was shot in a massive water tank at Pinewood Dominican Republic. The responsible DIT, Bhima Gandica, takes us behind the scenes and explains how he navigated this demanding production environment. Bhima used Livegrade Pro, Silverstack Lab, and a previous version of Pomfort’s cloud service ShotHub to design a workflow of maximum efficiency.
When working with loads of metadata in fast-paced film production environments, every reduction of manual effort is helpful. Hence, it’s a common aim to track metadata in a way that keeps manual entries and maintenance to a minimum - at best, you find yourself entering metadata only once. In this article, we’ll discuss four different approaches to doing so.
Did you recently start using Livegrade, and are you looking for the best way to achieve look consistency across the whole production? In that case, this “Pomfort Basics” article is especially for you as we will cover this topic in depth and through the lens of a beginner. So, let’s shine some light on working with reference media in Livegrade.
The vast amount of metadata worth tracking in film productions steadily grows. As a result, it can be challenging to stay on top of things when trying to properly manage it. Collecting data from many different sources, associating metadata in a way that benefits further production steps, validating the integrity of information, and preparing metadata for distribution: All these demanding tasks have their origin on set, and you, as a DIT, are in charge.
In this article, DITs from different parts of the world share their experiences and thus shine some light on current slating practices. Sure, labeling and operating the Slate is the 2nd AC’s responsibility. However, dealing with the resulting metadata is in the hands of the DIT, who uses slate information to associate looks, camera clips, and other assets that belong to the same scene.
There are many reasons to share your Silverstack project across multiple devices, like choosing another computer when leaving the set or collaborating with your team on location. This article will outline some exemplary use cases to give you an idea of how your workflow can benefit from the library sync feature - whether you are working in a team, or coordinating multiple crew units across the world.