By
Jack James, Jack James began his career in computer animation, eventually working for Kodak's Cinesite Digital Lab. His core expertise is in establishing
workflows of data management, film restoration, and conforming--procedures that have widely been adopted elsewhere. Since leaving Cinesite,
Jack has worked on the digital intermediates of many feature films, including Miramax's
Cold Mountain.
Description
The Digital Intermediate process (DI), or conversion of film to digital bits and then back to film again, has great potential to revolutionize
the postproduction process. The skill set to photochemically process a movie and pop it into a canister for the postal service to send
around to all of the movie houses and the skill set to digitally master and create a file that is distributed globally via the Internet
and satellites are completely different. One of these entirely new processes is that of the digital intermediate. The DI has tremendous
advantages, ranging from improved quality (first "print" is as good as the last) to cost savings (no re-mastering) to digital distribution
(bits and bytes: no film in canisters). The DI influences everything from on set production to the delivery of content to consumers and
everything in between.
Digital Intermediates for Film and Video teaches the fundamental concepts and workflow of the digital intermediate
process. Covers basics of film first, and then introduces the digital world--including a tutorial on digital images, asset management,
online editing, color correction, restoration, film and video output, mastering and quality control.
Jack’s clear and easy-to-follow
explainiation of Hollywood buzz words and components facilitates the spill over to anyone who has a vested interest in the quality and
cost of the movie.
Audience:
Working film and video professionals in the field of post production.
