DIT
After weeks or months of writing scripts, planning your shots, scouting locations, gathering your crew and renting the necessary gear, it all comes down to making sure you HAVE what you NEED TO HAVE during and after the shoot.
Sure, you could save money by having someone double up on their duties and off load a card here and there. You could get an intern to copy cards over to different drives. But after all the time, effort and money to get your production to this point, is this really what you want to do?
Are you ready for the inevitable day when you realize for some reason you never got all the shots?
Or worse, maybe the one hard drive the intern was using just died and now you have nothing?
I have personally seen this happen and it’s not pretty.
Maybe a better idea is to hire someone that not only copies over your precious data, but also organizes it, checks for any technical issues that can be fixed right then and there on the set, creates multiple VERIFIED copies to MULTIPLE DRIVES and does it all with lightning fast transfer speeds.
By the time the crew is finished striking the set you will already have drives in your hand that you can be confident have everything that you need, in duplicate.
Need your footage cataloged as you go?
Need a LUT created right on set for a client approved look?
Need proxy files made on-set for later client viewing ?
A good DIT brings security, efficiency and peace of mind to any production.
But I’m not a good DIT.
I’m awesome.