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Reader SurveyRolling Dailies
Jul 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Michael Goldman
Media.net's HD Screening Room Viewer dailies application went mobile for the first time when producers of Monster-in-Law combined the system with a laptop-controlled JVC D-ILA projector and a movie screen inside a mobile trailer supplied and configured by Vendetti Mobile of Los Angeles (now called Spartan Mobile Suites).
HD dailies for Monster-In-Law were screened on location using Media.net’s HD Screening Room Viewer.
Photo: Melissa Moseley
Director Robert Luketic wanted to view HD dailies on a large screen no matter his location during filming. Producers arranged for dailies to be transferred from film and encoded at Laser Pacific, Hollywood, and then delivered on an external hard drive. The drive was connected to a laptop configured with the HD Screening Room software for quick playback through the projector. Thus, Luketic was able to screen any dailies reel with full non-linear playability at various locations.
Assistant Editor Alex Renskoff, who supervised the dailies process and helped editors Scott Hill and Kevin Tent cut the movie on a Lightworks Touch system, believes the approach, from a creative point of view, was superior to screening VHS or DVD dailies because it allowed them to view high-quality MPEG-2 HD media on a big screen while enjoying instant access to any shot.
“Since printing film for dailies projection is slowly dying out,” says Renskoff, “this looks like a good approach to me. Some filmmakers are content to watch [digital dailies] on a laptop or small monitor, but if you think they should be projected, like I do, this method of being able to do it remotely on location, and having instant access in realtime to any shot we wanted was great.”
