Digital intermediate (often abbreviated as DI) describes the process of digitizing a motion picture and manipulating color and other image characteristics to change the look. Below is a collection of articles on the digital intermediate (DI) process in film making. Find out how the pros use digital intermediate techniques in movies and films.
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Exclusive Podcast: Clint Eastwood on Letters from Iwo Jima
Listen to Digital Content Producer's exclusive interview between Ocsar-winning director Clint Eastwood and Senior Editor Michael Goldman as they talk about the making of Eastwood's latest film, Letters from Iwo Jima.... |
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Podcast: Martin Scorsese on The Departed
The director and his team explain digital workflow techniques for a modern noir.... |
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Scorsese on the DI process for The Departed
Martin Scorsese and his longtime cinematographer, Michael Ballhaus, ASC, shot Scorsese’s new picture, The Departed, on film, as they always have, and yet, high-definition technology played a centrol role in pulling the entire project together.... |
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HD Expo's Guild Panels Takes a Look at the DI Workflow
Daryn Okada, ASC, president of the American Society of Cinematographers; David Frederick, SOC, president of the Society of Operating Cameramen; and Steven Poster, ASC, president of International Cinematographer’s Guild-Local 600 join Producer’s Guild of America reps and top creative talent for a panel discussion... |
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DI at NAB 2006
At NAB 2006, users can now pick from a number of end-to-end DI solutions.... |
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SR Tape DI Alternative
With the introduction of Sony's 4:4:4 RGB HDCAM SR recorder in 2003, the take on tape changed — it was no longer yesterday's format. The post industry became intrigued, since this HD format offered a full Common Image Format 1920×1080 sampling structure on 1/2in. cassettes.... |
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DI for a Geisha
How One Cinematographer Set His Look with DI: Dion Beebe's first chance to see Geisha after it emerged from the digital intermediate process — a process he had to jump in and out of due to his loaded shooting schedule — was when The Geisha DI performed at Technicolor Digital Intermediates (TDI), Burbank, Calif. ... |
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Creating an Efficient Workflow with Dailies for DI
Less than 50 percent of [major studio feature films] per year are finished with a digital intermediate,” estimates Joe Matza, president of Efilm, Hollywood, Calif. “But by the end of next year, I suspect that number will be close to two-thirds. The transition is gathering a full head of steam.”... |
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Indie Animation
The independently produced CG film movement takes another step forward with this month's release from the Weinstein Company, Hoodwinked. Producers insist the movie is a true indie project — made for less than $20 million. ... |
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Compressed DI
O Entertainment of San Clemente, Calif., recently created a new iteration of the project formerly known as Santa Claus Versus the Snowman using Adobe Premiere Pro and a beta version of CineForm's Prospect 2K software. ... |
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DI: Painting a Wintry Palette on The Weather Man
Director Gore Verbinski and his crew shot the movie in 2004 and wrapped up the digital intermediate and production of other deliverables at the end of that year.... |
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Step by Step:
Kingdom Of Heaven
Modern visual effects techniques like CG sets, virtual extras, and digitally enhanced stunts are making it possible to mount period pieces on a scale that would have pleased Cecil B. DeMille. These techniques have enabled director Ridley Scott to finally film the 12th century Crusades saga, Kingdom of Heaven, for 20th Century Fox. ... |
The Digital Intermediate Process
The growing sophistication of filmmakers and the influence of technology is ever increasing the benchmark of the quality expected by the audience. In the past ten years alone digital technologies have brought us visual effects that would have been too expensive, too dangerous or just outright impossible before.
Mastering the digital intermediate
We hear the term "digital intermediate" frequently, especially connection with digital cinema projects. But what exactly is a digital intermediate?
Cineco - Digital Intermediate
In the international movie industry, 'digital intermediate' has grown into a buzzword for a wide range of technical processes associated with bringing a movie into the theatre. It is Cineco's view that 'digital intermediate' encompasses the full range of technical processes
Digital Intermediate Solutions
The Media Village provides complete End-to-End Digital Intermediate Workflow Solutions for Film Post Production, including the following workflow solutions
Digital Intermediate Book
Aimed at professional cinematographers, directors and producers new to the digital intermediate process, and at facilities already providing a digital intermediate service, this guide acts as both an explanation of the various components of the digital intermediate process, and a reference of the specifications and procedures.
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