Since 2008, a significant number of post production houses seemed to have disappeared. Some have been sold at a loss, others were merged with a group of pre-existing facilities, some were liquidated, one I know of simply changed its name, and a few just went out of business. No doubt, the world of filmmaking is changing, and we at Light Iron believe that some of the future of profitable post production lies on set.
For the most part, post production has become an IT based entity. But interestingly enough, for the most part, production has remained largely unaffected by much of the advantages an IT infrastructure offers.
My partners and I at Light Iron have mobilized a large portion of our efforts to introduce new IT based system integration to the world of production. I’ll talk a lot more about my on-set (post) observations later, but I wanted to take a moment to highlight one of our newest products.
Many people already know that Light Iron provides on-set mobilized dailies systems called OUTPOST. In a nutshell, OUTPOST is a software/hardware combination data-center for file-based acquired projects that wish to compress the time it takes to make backups, dailies, sync sound, and archive and manage all that on set. Our newest software, LiVE PLAY, is a streaming video playback system that offers the fastest, cheapest, non-tethered, meta-data rich capture, viewing, and saving of recorded images ever. Below is a link to the Li website that shows a more in-depth video of how LiVE PLAY works. In this blog, I included some stills of the application as well.
http://www.lightirondigital.com/LightIRON_Digital/LIGHTIRON_OUTPOST_2.html
LiVE PLAY STILLS
+ Ability to create as many custom users as required by set
+ Ability to browse directories for video clips and organize by Scene, date, movie, episode, etc.
+ Ability to make custom notes saved as meta-data to an XML file that can be retrieved later in post production
Notes are based on uses for Directors (performance), DPs (Camera/Lighting), and Script Supervisor (Scene & Take).
The result with LiVE PLAY is a more meta-data rich hand-shake between production and post. Giving a tremendous of amount of control to the creatives on set as well as tremendous speed in the ability to view and make near real-time evaluations on their days work.
