I’ve been thinking of ways to get more jobs done with color grading. Not necessarily Color as an application, but that’s the only dedicated tool I know so far, and I just placed my pre-order for DaVinci, so I hope that baby will attract some cool clients.

I’ve asked a director I know if he’d do dailies when he’s shooting his first feature length film. He quickly said no, but I guess he didn’t understand what it’s all about. Or maybe I’m misinformed about what the deal is?

What is dailies? Do any of you do it? And how do you get those jobs?

Hey man, you and me too buddy! You and me too… Dailies as far as I can remember, is where the junior/assistant will do a 1st-light pass on the rushes to make them ‘look nice’ for the Director to view. You can’t really get an idea of what you shot, lighting and exposure-wise, if all you’re looking at is a flat R3D file, so you make the basic primary-in type adjustments plus any stipulations such as a grad here or there. You’re just basically dialling in the overall look. Getting it into decent shape before the senior comes in on a client attend and works her magic.

As for getting the gig, you have to be in a facility..

btw , did you have a crack at that skin softening request? I’m not sure what tools in CFX room to translate into the AE tools to get what she wants.