What is Dailies?
Dailies can refer to a number of things, Orchard Dailies handles the processing, preparing, and archiving of the daily footage in a Dailies Lab.
Dailies can also refer to:
- Rushes - the daily footage shot on a production
- Viewing Dailies - the copy of the footage that the production will watch each day
- Dailies Crew Member - someone working on-set for a select number of days
Dailies Lab
Orchard Dailies provides Labs for HETV & Film productions, shooting both digitally and with film negatives. Dailies is a vital pivoting point between on-set and post-production, making sure that the picture, sound, and metadata are archived and delivered to the Editorial department as seen on-set.
Each night a Dailies Operator will:
- Copy picture and sound files to Production hard drives
- Enter metadata, such as slating, colour, and framing information
- Apply CDLs & LUTs from the DIT on-set*
- Sync the picture and sound files together
- Create and upload viewing dailies
- Create and upload Editorial proxies
- Create Avid bins
- Archive picture and sound to LTOs
*Colour and lighting adjustments.
When doing a full Dailies lab with Orchard Dailies we will look after your workflow from the initial workflow call right through to liaising with your Post House. We ensure that vetting packages, metadata workflows, and colour pipelines are all prepared and maintained throughout your production.
The benefits of a Dailies Lab are:
- Workflow document creation and updates
- Workflow monitoring from prep to post
- Support from our experienced Dailies and Technical team
- One lab for multiple units and shoots
- Controlled QC environment
- Controlled Dailies Colour environment
- Extra pair of eyes on the footage
- Added security from our facility or holding the footage in a near-set lab
- No weekend surcharge
Individual Services
Orchard Dailies also provides individual services if a full lab isn’t needed:
- LTO Archival
- Copies and back ups to hard drives
- Transcodes for viewing or Editorial
- Upload of packages via our Aspera or your Production platform
- Upload of RAW files via your Production platform
- Pulling data from LTO or hard drives
If you’d like to know more about Dailies or discuss your workflow for an upcoming project, get in touch: dailies@digitalorchardgroup.com