Digital Intermediate or DI is a type of motion picture processing. Although before it was mostly associated with sci-fi movies teeming with special effects, these days it's been proven to be applicable to just about any film genre. With the numerous advantages it has over the traditional processing done at the laboratory, it's no wonder DI has been grabbing attention.
Like what the name says, it involves the digitizing of a film. It is scanned to become a digital file stored on a computer. The editor's main tool is a computer, in contrast to the various chemicals and other instruments necessary for laboratory processing. Once finished, the product of the editing is then once more printed onto film.
DI brings a variety of advantages, and the prevention of lowering the resolution is just one of them. In the traditional approach, turning a film into a projection print meant the downgrading of its native resolution. However, the digitized method allows the original resolution to be maintained. To put it in other words, DI is a lossless kind of mastering.
Right after digitizing the frames, there are so many editing forms that may be performed. As earlier mentioned, DI is no longer only for movies filled with special effects. Color correction that can be done is highly flexible. That's because fine tuning is performed by the editor on the level of pixels, making it possible to skip areas where adjustment isn't needed.
The same is true for lowering or increasing the contrast. Such may be done on certain areas only where the ratio of color luminance has to be fiddled with. DI also allows for the attainment of a more uniform look in terms of lighting. Scenes with varying lighting setup or shot at different times of the day may be edited for the sake of conformity.
Needless to say, DI also allows for the addition or enhancement of special effects. It enables better composting even without the use of green screen techniques during shooting, making it possible to add or eliminate certain scene elements. These various adjustments and more may be done one after the other, either on a single frame or on every one of them.
The steep price tag of Digital Intermediate is one of the few cons around. But expect the cost to get lower as computers become even more powerful in the near future. What's more, the proliferation of studios offering motion picture post-processing services makes the mastering approach more affordable and accessible to commercial as well as independent films.
Like what the name says, it involves the digitizing of a film. It is scanned to become a digital file stored on a computer. The editor's main tool is a computer, in contrast to the various chemicals and other instruments necessary for laboratory processing. Once finished, the product of the editing is then once more printed onto film.
DI brings a variety of advantages, and the prevention of lowering the resolution is just one of them. In the traditional approach, turning a film into a projection print meant the downgrading of its native resolution. However, the digitized method allows the original resolution to be maintained. To put it in other words, DI is a lossless kind of mastering.
Right after digitizing the frames, there are so many editing forms that may be performed. As earlier mentioned, DI is no longer only for movies filled with special effects. Color correction that can be done is highly flexible. That's because fine tuning is performed by the editor on the level of pixels, making it possible to skip areas where adjustment isn't needed.
The same is true for lowering or increasing the contrast. Such may be done on certain areas only where the ratio of color luminance has to be fiddled with. DI also allows for the attainment of a more uniform look in terms of lighting. Scenes with varying lighting setup or shot at different times of the day may be edited for the sake of conformity.
Needless to say, DI also allows for the addition or enhancement of special effects. It enables better composting even without the use of green screen techniques during shooting, making it possible to add or eliminate certain scene elements. These various adjustments and more may be done one after the other, either on a single frame or on every one of them.
The steep price tag of Digital Intermediate is one of the few cons around. But expect the cost to get lower as computers become even more powerful in the near future. What's more, the proliferation of studios offering motion picture post-processing services makes the mastering approach more affordable and accessible to commercial as well as independent films.
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Nolan Tornes likes blogging about video production. For additional information about digital intermediate processing, or to find out more about color grading workflow, please check out the DigitalSystemsMedia.com website now.
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