DIT Nerd

Hi, my name is Samuel Gursky. I am a freelance Digital Imaging Technician living and working in New York City. I'm going to review programs and products that I use for work. / Got any suggestions for products or programs that I should review? email me at [email protected]

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whoa, you're looking at the temporary pickup location for RED in NYC. They announced yesterday that they would be opening this temporary location up for pickups & RMA drop off starting Monday, December 2nd 2013. 

127 Grand Street / New York, NY 10013

I'm personally VERY stoked, as this is 5 blocks from my (www.irvingharvey.com) office/grading studio just down Broadway. 

Original Post: http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?109091-Happy-Thanksgiving-New-York-RED-Will-Call-is-now-open

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check out DITuser, a new forum for Digital Imaging Technicians & Colorists to nerd out. 

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full review coming soon, but this is a little preview of the power that I'm getting out of my new DIT Station Rogue 4. 

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testing the BYTECC SuperSpeed USB 3.0 to eSata 3Gbs Adapter today, here's the speed test using a 2TB 7,200 RPM G Tech with a MacBook Pro Retina 15". 

http://www.amazon.com/BYTECC-SuperSpeed-eSATA-3Gbs-Adapter/dp/B003EMJ34U

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Can this be repaired? RED says no, help me please.

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?88799-RED-Rocket-Damaged-pics-inside-anybody-know-if-this-can-be-fixed

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wow, I cannot believe that they finally added it... It's still 8-bit 4:2:2, but it's definitely better than nothing! I'm thrilled to have the option of using an external recorder to go straight to ProRes. Nevertheless, it's very cool to see Canon adding a feature that is so incredibly necessary after much request... 

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RED EPIC-M Monochrome Footage, wow. I am blown away, can't wait to get to work with this footage. 

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ESPN commercial today, stoked on the gig, not stoked on the 3 hour drive and 8am call -_- (Taken with Instagram at Bristol, CT)

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@ditstation we're gonna need a bigger boat! #upgrade #retina #happybirthdaytome!

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Day 3 of shooting for @walksofitaly (10.04.2012) (Taken with Instagram at Hotel Estense)

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Light Iron - Liveplay & Todailies Review

If you don't already know Light Iron, than I'm surprised that you're reading this blog... 

The great folks over at Light Iron have created two applications for the iPad that are both not only useful, but practical, easy to use and affordable. Coming in at a modest $9.99 each in the app store, Liveplay can be used to stream h.264 on set to any iPad connected to the internet, and Todailies can be used to not only do the same, but to save those h.264 files to the iPad itself for review, and then subsequent shot selection and .xml email for things such as client/director shot selection, etc... I have done a ton of testing, all I can really say is that I am in love. It doesn't try to do more than it should, and it does everything that it says it does well, plus on top of that it also utilizes Light Iron Server to push the videos out over your network, which is also a free application. Amazing. 

Pro tip: if you're a RED guy, don't use RedCine to create the h.264s for this, Chris over at LightIron suggested using watch folders in Adobe Media Encoder to automatically transcode h.264s off of transcodes pushed out of RedCine, absolutely brilliant! Thanks Chris! 

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StephenDiaz Giveaway - Vimeo Plus Account for a year (details coming soon)

YO friends, we’re about to hit 20,000 followers, and it’s been a while since we’ve done a giveaway…I was thinking about what to do that would be special and stumbled upon this interview with Benjamin Reese, the guy behind the PostSecret film I posted a while back. Vimeo has been a seriously awesome experience for me, the collaboration, inspiration and creative feedback that the thriving filmmaking community over there provides. That is why when this blog reaches 20,000 followers (should be within the next few days) I want to give away a free Vimeo plus account for a year! How does that sound?

If that sounds like something you’d want to win, let me know by liking and reblogging this post :D I’ll come up with some details on how to enter soon so be on the look out for those on Tumblr, Facebook, or Twitter.

GOOD LUCK!

-StephenDiaz

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Taken with Instagram

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in a truck today... #Philadelphia #Sucks #Wawa (Taken with Instagram at Simons Recreation Center)

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today's workstation... (Taken with Instagram at Youth Group Gallery)

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Salsa Music Video today... (Taken with Instagram at Cinema World Studios)

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working from home today, a much needed day of (almost) rest. (Taken with Instagram)