select the argument on my right-click. It's less work for me... although, the only progress indicator are growlnotify notifications during the transfer. Not very complicated utilities, but save me a lot of distraction. I can focus on the Live Camera signal, and especially freeing up time to grade the shots in Colorfront Express Dailies. I prefer using Colorfront Express Dailies as it is the fastest way of adding CDL primaries to a set of shots. On my last movie, I would download the circle take from each card, or any takes with a lighting change. I would always view the live camera signal, which would give me a head start on quality control and to write down any lighting changes, and log clips to download. I use a Tangent Element Tk panel with Express Dailies. It fits all of my needs. I’ve been surprised by how quick ExD is to operate. All the operations are keyboard shortcuts, and the list can be viewed at any time. Customizing the interface to your needs is easily exportable and saved for quick access. ExD also has an excellent Audio AutoSync. Within your daily folder, for example 20140325 (March 25th 2014), you have several folders. Audio/ look/ emd/ and any camera formats, ≥≥F65/ F55/ REDR3d/ ALEXA/. Anything within these folders will be available to use within the software. After the media is parsed into the MySQL database, you can review all the clips at one time in a entire day timeline as individual rolls. ExD has a luxtore feature, which is a saved CDL with a .tiff screenshot from the current frame you are working on. I would then use those frames to match corrections across various angles. These Luxtores can be accessed instantly by holding the “5” Key, and then Option+UP/DOWN to browse them. I can add a Luxtore by pressing shift+pageUP, and then apply by shift+pageDOWN. This makes grading shots within a scene extremely fast without using a mouse. With the Luxtore and the Reference wiping, and all the keyboard shortcuts, I can complete the Dailies grading everyday on time before leaving the set.
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I tend to create the tools I need in order to keep up with the busy workflow of a movie set. For the F55 camera, I created another script that copies each clip and verifies with MD5 checksums and prints all information to another Log File. This one script saves me a massive amount of time, and if a certain clips MD5 does not match it will re-copy the data again.
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