A Comparison of On-set Ingest, Logging, Dailies, Grading and Backup Software

A Comparison of On-set Ingest, Logging, Dailies, Grading and Backup Software | wolfcrow:
This article compares 15 on-set tools in one big chart, so you can start your investigations (that’s what it is) without pouring over hundreds of pages of features that hide weaknesses. Hopefully, the chart will reduce your workload to only about 50 pages of features and a couple of manuals. No big deal.

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Red Giant Announces BulletProof at #NABShow 2013

Red Giant Announces BulletProof at #NABShow 2013 | Post Production Engineer | Broadcast Engineer | Video Engineer | Studio Engineer:
Red Giant today announced BulletProof at NAB 2013 in Las Vegas, NV. BulletProof is a complete offload, prep and delivery solution for footage that simplifies the tedious tasks facing filmmakers on set every day. Bridging the gap between camera and editor, BulletProof combines all backup, organization, color and delivery tasks while handling footage from multiple cameras and media cards. Whether shooting with a Canon DSLR, Nikon DSLR or GoPro sports cam, filmmakers, videographers and data wranglers can now quickly and easily transform their capture into edit-ready footage.

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Pomfort releases major upgrade to its professional onset data-management software Silverstack

Pomfort releases major upgrade to its professional onset data-management software Silverstack:
Pomfort today announces the immediate availability of the new Silverstack. The powerful new version 3.0 of Silverstack now supports high-speed and checksum-verified copy processes to multiple destinations for all kind of camera and file formats. Furthermore it comes with a revised user interface and provides customizable copy reports. (Munich, Germany--March 27, 2013) Pomfort, a global provider of professional solutions for data and color management on the film set, today releases the latest major upgrade to its flagship software product Silverstack.

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CacheIO, Quantum, MTI Film Team to Demonstrate 4K Streaming at HPA Technology Retreat

CacheIO, Quantum, MTI Film Team to Demonstrate 4K Streaming at HPA Technology Retreat:
CacheIO, the Flash storage technology company, has teamed with Quantum, provider of StorNext shared file system software, and MTI Film, a Hollywood-based postproduction services provider and software developer. This alliance will demonstrate its joint system for uncompressed 4K streaming at the Hollywood Post Alliance Technology Retreat taking place Monday through Friday. The HPA demo will highlight the capabilities of MTI Film’s new dailies workflow, Cortex::Control Dailies.

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How to Create Dailies in DaVinci Resolve 9

How to Create Dailies in DaVinci Resolve 9 | www.creativeplanetnetwork.com:
Andy Shipsides of AbelCine goes over how to create dailies in DaVinci Resolve 9 in the two-part tutorial found below. The first part focuses on syncing audio both manually and automatically, while the second part explains how to add a LUT, change raw settings, add burn-ins and create an output format.

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Skyfall: Dailies & DI from London to California

Skyfall: Dailies & DI from London to California - Creative COW:
To ensure color consistency from dailies to DI for Skyfall, Company 3 London and EFILM collaborated to create an integrated pipeline, newly branded EC3. Skyfall cinematographer Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC was able to enjoy dailies graded by his long-time CO3 Santa Monica colorist working out of London, and the two facilities coordinated color science and calibration for an overall consistent look throughout the process.

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Video assist, dailies and 'looks' in digital movie-making

Neil Sadwelkar's musings on Digital: Video assist, dailies and 'looks' in digital movie-making:
I keep calling them movies, not films, and movie-making, not film-making because some new movies in India are being shot on digital mediums - Canon HDSLRs, Red, Alexa, Sony and others. No film used, means new methods, new workflows. The concept of 'video assist' and 'dailies', too assume a somewhat different approach.

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24fps film master to 25fps DigiBeta tape master

24fps film master to 25fps DigiBeta tape master:

In a film 24fps project, one often has to make PAL outputs, at 25fps.
Here we refer to 24fps as 'true 24 fps' not like 23.976fps which is called 24fps in NTSC countries.

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Digital Vision and MTI Film form Strategic Partnership

Digital Vision and MTI Film form Strategic Partnership:

Digital Vision and MTI Film have formed a strategic technology partnership to develop a new digital dailies software solution, built upon Digital Vision’s Nucoda colour grading system and the MTI’s Cortex::ControlDailies solution. Introduced this morning at IBC in Amsterdam, the announcement marks the development of a previously unavailable dailies product in the marketplace, built upon two powerful technologies.

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EXPORTING LOW RES QT FROM AVID…FAST. - Little Frog in High Def

EXPORTING LOW RES QT FROM AVID…FAST. - Little Frog in High Def:
One thing I find myself doing very often while editing remotely…me in L.A., the production company in Virginia…is exporting Quicktime files of my project for my producers at “home base” to watch.  I will do this on an Act by Act basis…when I finish an act, I’ll export it, upload to their FTP.

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MIST and RAIN get new features

MIST and RAIN get new features:
Marquise Technologies has released some new features for MIST and RAIN.

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Adobe Prelude: Ingesting and Converting DSLR Footage to ProRes

Adobe Prelude: Ingesting and Converting DSLR Footage to ProRes: Leverage the tools within Adobe Prelude to ingest and transcode your video footage to ProRes - a solid intermediate codec for video editing! We've got the scoop on how to do it.

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DaVinci Resolve Lite for transcoding Avid MXF media

DaVinci Resolve Lite for transcoding Avid MXF media:
A recent projet required the editorial department to transcode dailies using a set-generated LUT for the ARRI Alexa camera. The simplest method to transcode media, apply LUT, and prepare for cutting with Avid Media Composer is using DaVinci Resolve Lite.

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Dailies Workflow with Pomfort LiveGrade & DaVinci Resolve

Dailies Workflow with Pomfort LiveGrade & DaVinci Resolve:

Pomfort has put together a new tutorial on how to use their LiveGrade software in conjunction with DaVinci Resolve to create dailies. LiveGrade can be used with hardware like the BlackMagic HD Link Pro to create LUTs live.

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On set Post Production

On set Post Production:
Light Iron Digital’s On Set Post Production
This video from Michael Cioni and his team at Light Iron Digital is seeking to demonstrate a) how their kit works and b) their vision of the future of on/near set post production. Its a really interesting watch…

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וואו!

הוידאו המצורף לפוסט הוא אחד המצגות הכי מרשימות שראיתי למערכת DIT. שווה להשאר את כל התשע דקות, יש טוויסט בסוף!
העלות של מערכות כמו זו של של Light Iron או של המתחרה הפופולרית Colorfront OSD (שהייתי מעורב בפיתוח שלה), יכולה להגיע לעשרות אלפי דולרים ליחידה. מצד שני, כשמחשבים את עלות החומרה בלבד - מחשב עוצמתי, מוניטורים רגישים ומכויילים, רייד דיסקים גדול ומהיר, טייפ LTO, נתב רשת ועוד, נראה שהרווח על המערכות האלו הוא לא כזה גבוה. גם פתרונות "עממיים" יותר כמו Premiere או Resolve Lite החינמי, יגיעו מהר מאד לעלויות דומות, אם יותקנו על חומרות דומות.
כמו תמיד, החכמה היא לדעת להתאים להפקה את הפתרון הכי נכון בשבילה.

Todailes – Digital Dailies Ipad App

Todailes – Digital Dailies Ipad App:

LightIron Digital have released a $9.99 ipad app called Todailies which when coupled with a free laptop app called LightIron Server lets you wirelessly stream dailies to any connected ipad (several simultaneously) and allow different crew members to sort, label and organise the dailies and email that playlist of specific clips as an xml file, which can then be opened in any of the major NLE’s and reconnected to the full res footage.

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NAB 2012 – StorageDNA LTO-5 LTFS Backup Solutions

NAB 2012 – StorageDNA LTO-5 LTFS Backup Solutions:
Alex talks with Jeff Krueger from StorageDNA about their very cool backup and instant dailies solution that was battle tested on James Cameron’s recent 7 mile dive to the bottom of the Pacific. Cool tech!

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FotoKem's File-based Dailies Software Offers Unparalleled Functionality in Post Production Pipelines

FotoKem's File-based Dailies Software Offers Unparalleled Functionality in Post Production Pipelines: (Las Vegas: NAB 2012--April 17, 2012) FotoKem has unveiled the newest version of its nextLAB software and on-set system. Designed and developed in house by FotoKem's software development team, nextLAB v3.0 can manage digital camera files and metadata, supporting ARRI Alexa and Sony F65 in their native raw formats, RED Epic and Scarlet, Silicon Imaging, and the Canon DSLRs and EOS lines. nextLAB v3.0 also incorporates the Academy Color Encoding Specifications (ACES) architecture, an increasingly important capability for filmmakers. The development of nextLAB and its ongoing advancements are products of the company's technology teams, backed by five decades of experience in the post production industry. Additionally, FotoKem's nextLAB LIVE is an application that supports on-set color correction directly from digital camera feeds in real time.

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Colorfront Launches Transkoder Engine At NAB 2012

Colorfront Launches Transkoder Engine At NAB 2012: New workflow workhorse fits straight into existing facility architecture (Las Vegas: NAB 2012--April 17, 2012) – Academy Award-winning developer Colorfront has launched a new product line that automates fast, high-quality digital file conversion for studios and VFX facilities involved in motion picture and high-end TV production. The standalone Transkoder Engine is based on Colorfront’s award-winning On-Set Dailies architecture and uses cost-effective, commodity hardware, to deliver faster-than-realtime processing to transcode, decode, convert and process files for multiple deliverables.

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Marquise Technologies and NextComputing, On-Set Dailies

Marquise Technologies and NextComputing, On-Set Dailies:

Marquise Technologies and NextComputing, manufacturers of high-performance portable and small form-factor workstations and servers, have announced a joint solution for the ingest, grading and delivery of digital film dailies on-set and near-set.
Marquise Technologies M I S T (Media Ingest Stream Transcode) software, when driven by NextComputing's portable workstation computers, provides a complete solution for the creation, distribution, and viewing of dailies from any of the myriad of digital camera formats in today's cinema productions, while on location.

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