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MillimeterThe iPhone on Set
May 14, 2009 1:31 PM, By Barry Braverman
It’s your new best production assistant.
The Panasonic P2 proxy encoder places the MPEG-4 video files in the appropriate folder.
This brings up a limitation of the current system: Because of digital-rights-management restrictions, only one iPhone at a time can be synced to an iTunes Library. If multiple iPhones access the proxy dailies from a common computer’s iTunes library, their own movie lists will be replaced with the proxy videos. This may not sit well with the director or producer and other folks who rather like their own videos for schmoozing and job cultivation. Reiterating this point: If more than one iPhone will be reviewing dailies from a common computer, iTunes will overwrite the existing movies on the additional iPhones during the syncing process. The original movies on the other phones are easily restored, however, by resyncing to that person’s computer and iTunes library. Only movie files are affected by this proxy video scheme; the music library, applications, and address book are not touched.
Even cameras without proxy encoding capabilities can take advantage of iPhone dailies. The Mac-only ProxyMill from Imagine Products generates compatible MPEG-4 files from the ingested MXF P2 or QuickTime camera files.
Seriously though
Any way you poke, swipe, or tickle it, the iPhone is destined to play a pivotal role in the shooter’s future workflow. Whatever our fears and reservations may be, we shooters must learn to work smarter and with greater attention to new file- and web-based tools.
Calculating depth of field, applying post-camera filters to location stills, or reviewing video dailies, the iPhone can play a key role in all of it. Hell, many of us are checking our email and text messaging every 5 minutes anyway. We might as well get something useful out of all that screen time—beyond killing zombies.
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