Pomfort is one of the leading providers of on-set color management software, and they are making the link to the post suite faster and easier with the cloud-based ShotHub. Pomfort offers two of the most popular pieces of software for DIT's: Silverstack, for managing camera backups and metadata, and Livegrade, for live grading footage on set. They are now launching ShotHub, an online tool designed to help ensure that that data makes it successfully into post production as quickly as possible, and stays accessible for as long as it's needed. This is such a needed platform that it's a surprise that it has taken this long to be created. While the DIT is not likely doing the full dailies grade (that job is up to the dailies colorists), they are on set with the DP and director and frequently do rough grades to explore how things might look, and help the DP refine lighting within a given look. That data gets passed along to post, of course, but today it most often travels to set as files saved alongside the dailies files. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 15 October, 2020