Nice video and Nice rig! I would call this a dailies workstation not a DIT kit. In Italy a "DIT Box" and usually contains a Lut box like the FSI BoxIO, thunderbolt hub, a SDI video Hub like a blackmagic "smart video hub" and also a capture/playback card like the black magic ultrastudio plus other minor devices. How would you call this in the USA?
Playback is another person entirely in the union shows in the states therefore I can't offer live playback. I do have the ability to feed the LUT to the live feed, but I cannot offer playback except when processing footage after offload. I monitor live feed, but the focus here is to ingest, process, and work with the DP for a LUT per scene or for entire show and keep it consistent.
Good points Leonardo. In the USA the DIT position has a wide variety of services offered to production on an alacart basis. If production can afford it, then it's added to the DIT. But on the most basic level, it one is just doing on-lights, dailies, and transcodes for post, that's a DIT. If just doing asset offloading and asset management... that would be a digital loader/media manager position.
Laptops have worked great if you get one with enough power (best processor, lots of RAM, and fast ports)... to a point. Adding external stuff can be a challenge. The new M1 MacBooks show promise BUT the software has to catch up. In some cases, it will take a year for the software we use to optimize for the new silicon. Stay tuned for a video addressing this after the first of the year. But...don't try a Hackintosh laptop. Unless you have a high pain/frustration threshold.
@@learndit922 just another quick question, if I may. The offload computer must have more CPU power, and the rendering/export one, more gpu, is that about right? Or 2ac mini m1 would do the job - after software optimization and assuming the hype is for real. Thanks again
@@learndit922 Just got a M1 the other day, with the fairly low price tag, its astonishing what it can do. Connectivity is a bit of a pain tho, had to sink an additional 8th of the Macs cost into a all purpose TB3 dock...
Absolutely. The kit shown has USB3 pathways. USB2 is unuseable. In fact, with the huge 4k, 6k and larger files, the new thunderbolt is pretty much the minimum now. The data pile just keeps getting bigger.
Thanks for posting these videos so much! I'm starting work as a DIT in the Midwest and starting to build up my workflow and system. All of your videos have been incredible helpful! Hope to one day work on the level you do!
The motherboard only has 2 usable pci slots once you get that fat 580 card installed. The other slot is filled with the 10g ethernet card. 2 yrs ago, when this system was built, t-bolt was a hard find on these motherboards.
2 reasons: pure speed and second, packet size. Both move more data. There's other techie stuff under the hood of 10gb ethernet. But it's basically the need for speed.
Nice video and Nice rig! I would call this a dailies workstation not a DIT kit. In Italy a "DIT Box" and usually contains a Lut box like the FSI BoxIO, thunderbolt hub, a SDI video Hub like a blackmagic "smart video hub" and also a capture/playback card like the black magic ultrastudio plus other minor devices. How would you call this in the USA?
Playback is another person entirely in the union shows in the states therefore I can't offer live playback. I do have the ability to feed the LUT to the live feed, but I cannot offer playback except when processing footage after offload. I monitor live feed, but the focus here is to ingest, process, and work with the DP for a LUT per scene or for entire show and keep it consistent.
Good points Leonardo. In the USA the DIT position has a wide variety of services offered to production on an alacart basis. If production can afford it, then it's added to the DIT. But on the most basic level, it one is just doing on-lights, dailies, and transcodes for post, that's a DIT. If just doing asset offloading and asset management... that would be a digital loader/media manager position.
Thanks a lot for the videos. What about a laptop? Wouldn’t it do the job? Or 2 laptops
Laptops have worked great if you get one with enough power (best processor, lots of RAM, and fast ports)... to a point. Adding external stuff can be a challenge. The new M1 MacBooks show promise BUT the software has to catch up. In some cases, it will take a year for the software we use to optimize for the new silicon. Stay tuned for a video addressing this after the first of the year. But...don't try a Hackintosh laptop. Unless you have a high pain/frustration threshold.
@@learndit922 thanks for the response. Looking forward for your next videos.
@@learndit922 just another quick question, if I may. The offload computer must have more CPU power, and the rendering/export one, more gpu, is that about right? Or 2ac mini m1 would do the job - after software optimization and assuming the hype is for real. Thanks again
@@learndit922 Just got a M1 the other day, with the fairly low price tag, its astonishing what it can do. Connectivity is a bit of a pain tho, had to sink an additional 8th of the Macs cost into a all purpose TB3 dock...
@@hannes10001 which version did you get? Can you share the transfer and transcode speeds?
Thank you Mr. Trim! I'm buying your book and taking a DIT course in Toronto in a couple weeks.
If you take the Filmskills DIT course, you get the book as part of the course.
Thank you Robert, what is the cost of that kit?
Around $2000.
@@learndit922 thank you
Thanks for the great video. Just wondering, wouldn't usb 2.0 port be to slow to offload files?
Absolutely. The kit shown has USB3 pathways. USB2 is unuseable. In fact, with the huge 4k, 6k and larger files, the new thunderbolt is pretty much the minimum now. The data pile just keeps getting bigger.
Thanks for posting these videos so much! I'm starting work as a DIT in the Midwest and starting to build up my workflow and system. All of your videos have been incredible helpful! Hope to one day work on the level you do!
You have an additonal PCIe slot there (well, at least your case does), couldn't you just add TB3 that way?
The motherboard only has 2 usable pci slots once you get that fat 580 card installed. The other slot is filled with the 10g ethernet card. 2 yrs ago, when this system was built, t-bolt was a hard find on these motherboards.
Why is 10gb Ethernet port important?
2 reasons: pure speed and second, packet size. Both move more data. There's other techie stuff under the hood of 10gb ethernet. But it's basically the need for speed.
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