Tapeless Workflow and the Motion Picture Lab

This Digital Cinema Society meeting was held on December 5, 2009 at Foto Kem nextLab, Burbank, and features Tom Vice, Stephen Beres, and Mike Brodersen. They explain how a full service Film and Digital lab handles your data from back-up, dailies, through DI, filmout, and archive. From P2 to S.two, RED, XDCAM, Phantom, and more. We thank our volunteer streaming crew of Mike Broaten for Camera, Noah Mathers recording Sound with postproduction handled by Rainer Stanke. XLH1 camera courtesy of Canon USA.

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The Role of the DIT in Tapeless Digital Workflows

Jonathan Smiles is a Digital Production Supervisor (Camera Tech/DIT/Data/Editorial/VFX/DI) from the UK. He is the Managing Director/CEO - Digital Safari Ltd and was recently DIT on “District 9”, which was captured on the RED One camera system. In this presentation he answers questions and describes his role as a DIT in a tapeless workflow environment. Special thanks to our host, Foto Kem and the volunteer streaming crew of Mike Broaten on Camera, Noah Mathers recording Sound with all postproduction handled by Rainer Stanke. XLH1 camera courtesy of Canon USA.

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Introducing RED Rocket™

This Digital Cinema Society meeting was held on September 5, 2009 at LIGHTIRON Digital, Los Angeles. DCS Advisory Board Members and RED workflow aficionados Michael Cioni of LIGHTIRON Digital, and Torrey Loomis of Silverado Systems, (an authorized dealer for this product) are joined by Steve Freebarin to look at the latest workflow tool from RED, the RED Rocket™. Find out how it hyper-accelerates RED transcode, decoding and debayering 4K R3D files in realtime in addition to playing full quality 4K and scaled 2K/1080P. Our Host for the event was Alternative Rentals in Culver City, and we thank our volunteer streaming crew of Scott MacDonald for Camera, Christopher Knell for handling Sound with an assist all around by DCS Chief Technology Officer, Conrad Hunziker.

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Panasonic HPX300 Camcorder and HPG20 P2 Deck

Panasonic’s new AG-HPX300 Full-size Shoulder Mount Camcorder and AG-HPG20 Stand Alone Recording Deck are getting a lot of attention. Panasonic’s Doug Leighton gives a detailed presentation of this camera that delivers full 10bit 4:2:2 quality using AVC-Intra codec on P2 at a price of less than $10K including the interchangeable Fuji lens. We will also cover the versatile P2 workflow tool, HPG20 that offers the ability to record and playback many formats to the ubiquitous P2. The March 26th event was held at TV Pro Gear, Glendale, CA. Special thanks to our host as well as volunteer recording team of Brad Haskel on camera and Christopher Knell on Sound.

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Also, check out the following preview Trailer for our ASC/DCS Lighting Workshop Now Available for Download in the DCS Members Area

Last May, we held in conjunction with the American Society of Cinematographers at Mole Richardson, what we believe to be our finest event to date, a day long Lighting Workshop with legendary ASC Cinematographers including Allen Daviau, Robert Primes, Michael Goi, and Michael Negrin. George Spiro Dibie, ASC, and James Mathers served as moderators while each of these esteemed Cinematographers described their on-set process and performed some of their lighting magic before a very attentive audience of nearly 100. We taped in HDV with XL H1 cameras courtesy of Canon, and used a Varicam on the set to capture the angle the DPs were lighting for. Editing is now complete and the program is available to download in your choice of file size by members in good standing. Look in the DCS members area under ASC/DCS Lighting Workshop. Here's a sample to wet your appetites a bit. For a low res Quicktime trailer:

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