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Finishing on Film with Digital Intermediate<br />
Finishing on Film<br />
Digital intermediate (DI) is the cutting edge of fi lm fi nish workfl ow and advancements are evolving<br />
almost daily. For years, the computer has been cutting a path straight through the middle of motion<br />
picture workfl ow. With the exception of digital, the project has always been shot on fi lm and fi nished<br />
by cutting and splicing the fi lm to match the digital edit for printing and release. Digital intermediate<br />
fi nally breaks the workfl ow in half (see equipment in Figure 5.10). The camera negative is never<br />
even in the same room with the print.<br />
Figure 5.10 The Lasergraphics Director Scanner is used to scan the camera negative to 2 K or 4 K DI<br />
The usual workfl ow is only slightly removed from a negative fi lm fi nish. After the fi lm is cut and<br />
locked, the pull list is used to pull negative on all the shots used in the fi lm. They are pulled from<br />
fl ash to fl ash and spliced together. They are not spliced in the construction order from the cut list,<br />
but are left in the order they were pulled. They can in fact be in any order as they will be conformed<br />
into the construction order digitally. Often, an interpositive is printed from the assembled camera<br />
footage for safety. Then the camera negative is scanned to digital fi les, conformed to the cut list,<br />
color corrected and formatted, effects and titles added and then shot back onto fi lm negative. A second<br />
pass is made on this negative adding the sound tracks and this negative is used to make release<br />
prints.<br />
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