ABSTRACT
During a production, rushes or dailies are the footage shot each day and rushed to the postproduction facility for transcoding, for you and your crew to view at the end of a day’s shoot. It has also now become possible for filmmakers to screen dailies on set through their DIT. In this chapter we follow production to editorial: on set with the camera department and DIT, dropping dailies at your post facility, turning over camera reports and shot log sheets, digital dailies and film-to-digital dailies, framing charts and picture safe area, production audio recording tips, and road maps from production to deliverables. We discuss alternate delivery methods for dailies, including the Cloud, FTP or third-party vendors, and distributing screeners. We also discuss daily problems with dailies and how to troubleshoot issues once principal photography begins.
