DIT's seems to have become a very crucial role in the filmmaking process, I imagine it's quite challenging wrangling and securing all the crucial data of the shoot. Is there a particular forum where DIT's go to share experiences, advice, etc? With AI increasing the amount of data, I am looking for great ways/ workflows to manage the growing data. Can anyone suggest a particular forum?
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Mit Patel To my knowledge, there is no particular forum, and for the most part the DITs I have worked around and supervised are more or less on their own except where they are within Camera dept. (which is where I usually slot them). Though naturally they cross over into editorial dept as well. I see you have experience in data integrity, etc.. It would be interesting to speak with you as we are moving towards integration of AI into our studio work flow. If you think so, send me a network request and we can go from there.
I think that being a DIT is just someone who has good data management skills and the industry standard knowledge of how things are done.
I've never been a DIT before on any other projects than our own, but I have gotten some good comments on how structure the data and create backups and workflow that helps prevent data loss. Actually the only thing that I'm really scared of most of the time is if the recording media goes bad, which is another reason why smaller recording media is better but at the same time it wares out faster, so again a compromise.
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Vital Butinar Actually, the DIT or Media Manager often goes beyond that. Sometimes he or she will prep dailies, sync the day's sound and do rough assemblies each night. So they can be a central part of the creative team, especially where, for instance, VFX shots have to be assessed very quickly in-context with other parts of the scene. On some productions, there is an on-set editor and the DIT/Media Manager works with them. Others they are more strictly part of camera dept backing up and securing the footage.
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Shadow Dragu-Mihai, Esq., Ipg oh I've seen that, on one production that I've been involved in there was an onsite editor. But yeah of course, depending on the production different people can have a wider scope. So of course it's logical that there are DIT's who do a lot more. Not to diminish the work they do, I just have never had a project where we have had a dedicated person who worked as a DIT.
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Vital Butinar It really depends on the structure of the production, and how you like to work, of course.