DigitalFilm Tree

06/11/2022

THE DROP's "For Your Consideration" season hits COBRA KAI hard!

Editor Zack Arnold , ACE, visits the Drop dojo to talk through his karate chop editing magic on this Netflix hit.

#post #postproduction #cobrakai #editorial

06/08/2022

THE DROP's "For Your Consideration" season continues, with this week's spotlight on #GraceAndFrankie!

The DPs & editors of Netflix's long-running hit join us to say goodbye to this legendary duo!

#post #postproduction #editorial #cinematography

06/06/2022

DigitalFilm Tree (DFT) is proud to announce its role in the release of Prince and The Revolution: Live, a hi-def Blu-ray restoration of a March 30, 1985 Prince concert originally filmed in Syracuse, New York’s Carrier Dome and broadcast to the world via satellite. The film was originally released on VHS in the late 1980s before falling out of print.

Restoring and digitizing the concert film—shot in the analogue and obsolete NTSC format—was a delicate task, in which DFT’s CTO/ Senior Colorist Thomas Galyon, CSI, and Post-Production Engineer Greg Filkins had to painstakingly rescue the footage from an analogue time of soft blurs and jittery movements and into an HD era of high detail.

Waveform scope monitors were used to adjust and radically correct the color to truly match the vivid hues shot in 1985, rather than the signal-degraded imagery that existed on the VHS. Elsewhere, the NTSC footage—wherein every frame is actually two fields made up of interlocking odd and even “lines” rather than pixels—was properly interlaced into a new progressive image that eliminated lines altogether and evolved the frenetic footage into a file made of pixels, with each frame its own digital picture rather than NTSC fields. Data was mined to locate and highlight details never before visible in the original broadcast or VHS release, with Prince and Revolution’s faces, instruments, and ornate costumes/ stage design escaping harsh, blown-out VHS obfuscation and returning to brilliant clarity.

Finally, a layer of filmic grain was latticed throughout to mask camera distortions, and small VFX paint- outs and restoration work removed artifacts and noise reduction, with DFT’s Head of VFX Dylan Chudzynski restoring the concert's opening title card by creating clean vector graphics for the welcome scroll in its original font.

A months-long process of devotion, faith, and technology came together to bring Prince and the Revolution back to their galvanizing glory of March 30th, 1985, and now a world of fans will be able to reexperience (or experience for the very first time) a show that was nearly lost to the ravages of time, but, like the music, will now last forever.

Miss & 💜 u, P

05/30/2022

Happy Memorial Day from DigitalFilm Tree.

We remember, and are so grateful for, those who gave their all. Always.

05/27/2022

THE DROP's "For Your Consideration" season continues its 3-part exploration of #Severence with the below-the-line artists behind the show!

In Part 2, cinematographer Jessica Gagné walks us through her shots of the Lumon halls!

#post #postproduction #cinematography

05/26/2022

THE DROP Season 5: "For Your Consideration..." continues, honoring the below-the-line artists behind the shows we love!

This week: The AppleTV+ thriller #Severence hit us hard! Production Designer Jeremy Hindle joins us for the first episode in our 3-part look at the haunting series!

#post #postproduction #productiondesign

05/23/2022

That’s right! All 29 episodes of The Drop @ DFT are eligible For Your Consideration!

Quite timely as our Season 5 highlights some of our favorite shows and the below-the-line artists bringing them to life in editorial, sound, cinematography and production design.

Join us as we delve into Severance, WeCrashed, Yellowstone, Atlanta and so many more, or delve into the archives for a deep dive on Ted Lasso, The Umbrella Academy and the wealth of creative excellence we’ve had the honor of supporting!

05/22/2022

FYC: The Drop @ DFT

A podcast from a post house that's anything but ordinary.

Join host Nancy Jundi & the artists behind your favorite shows as they share the technology and creative choices bringing magic to your screen.

*Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series Or Special*

05/21/2022

The Drop 503: FYC: Yellowstone

THE DROP Season 5: "For Your Consideration..." rolls on, honoring below-the-line artists behind the shows we love!

This week: Yellowstone editor Chad Galster, ACE, joins The Drop to look at the 4th season of this mega hit!

05/19/2022

Get to know Team DFT!

This week's hero is Mike Streeter, who is DFT's Night Operations Manager. Mike oversees the all-out Herculean amount of dailies footage that flows into DFT, well, *daily*, AND can simultaneously make a decent argument as to why FRIDAY THE 13TH: PART II is the best of the franchise.

#post #postproduction #dailies

05/18/2022

Tonight! Catch the season finales for both The Conners and Home Economics on ABC (and all the DFT post work that's spread across both) before saying goodbye for the summer!

(You can also stream both on Hulu tomorrow!)

#TheConners #HomeEconomics

05/17/2022

Be sure to catch the season finale of NCIS: Los Angeles this Sunday night on CBS! One more blast of DFT color, dailies, editorial, online, previs, and VFX until Season 14 hits next fall!

05/17/2022

We’re going to have A LOT more to share about what you’re seeing here in the next couple of weeks, but…

Thomas Galyon, CSI is a name we want you to know, that you should be ready to *really* know.

My golly are we proud of this team and the privilege of working on this material.

05/13/2022

THE DROP Season 5: "For Your Consideration..." continues, welcoming below the line artisans from some of your favorite tv shows!

This week: Dopesick editor Doug Crise, ACE visits The Drop unpack this awards-sweeping Hulu original limited series.

05/11/2022

Get to know Team DFT!

This week's hero is Lakan de Leon, who is not only one of DFT's senior online editors (as well as a CRUCIAL member of The Drop @ DFT's editorial team), but is also the unofficial DFT historian, as well as the chillest human you'll ever meet.

05/06/2022

THE DROP Season 5: "For Your Consideration..." is here, and we're talking to craft artisans from production currently under Emmy consideration!

First up: join The editors and production designer of the AppleTV+
contender for outstanding limited series, #WeCrashed!

#post #postproduction #emmys

05/05/2022

This Sunday, NCIS: Los Angeles will be airing its 300TH EPISODE on CBS! This, coming on the heels of the news that NLA has been renewed for a 14th season (2022 - 2023), is an absolute delight, and DFT couldn't be more honored to provide color, dailies, editorial, online, previs, and VFX services to the longrunning hit series.

#post #postproduction #NLA

05/04/2022

Get to know Team DFT!

This week's hero is Erin White, DFT's Director of Content/Data Security. Erin oversees the dizzying amount of information and footage that flows into DFT on a daily basis, maintaining security and continuity therein while also liaising between the massive myriad of productions, other post entities, and various other stakeholders who send that information. Erin is the face of (and the gargantuan brain that powers) DFT's GeoPost services.

04/29/2022

Get to know Team DFT!

This week's hero is Tim Serda--DFT's integral Facilities Manager. Tim has been with DFT since the beginning, and is a steadfast presence of knowlege, DFT history, technical wizardy, helping hands, and a neverending bevy of dad jokes. A problem solver supreme, Tim (literally and figuratively) keeps the roof over our heads.

04/22/2022

Get to know Team DFT!

This week's hero is Renita Henley--DFT's HR Manager extraordinaire! Renita tackles every issue with a warm smile, a comforting laugh, and an overabundance of care and empathy while remaining a resolute protector of Team DFT during a period marked by exponential growth for our company AND a global pandemic. She's, quite simply, The Best.

04/20/2022

dft @ sxsw 2022: a recap

Our DFT & American Cinema Editors (ACE) SXSW season of The Drop concludes!

This week, Nancy chats with DFT CEO Ramy Katrib to recap their whirlwind adventure in Austin, TX with four of our shows and so many highlights from our panels!

#SXSW #TedLasso #Gaslit #UmbrellaAcademy #Lizzosbiggrrrls #ACE

04/15/2022

Get to know Team DFT!

This week's hero is Amy Phelps--DFT's Director of Operations. It would be so much easier to describe Amy by what she DOESN'T do, because she does SO MUCH for DFT: wrangling complex finances, billing, business development, client communications, and things we can't even tell you about yet, all on a daily basis. Amy never hesitates to throw her hat into the ring to help our ever-growing team.

04/13/2022

sxsw 2022 : lizzo's watch out for the big grrrls

Before she takes over Saturday Night Live this weekend, check out Lizzo's powerful #SXSW Keynote speech on The Drop @ DFT, wherein the Emmy-winner talks her new reality series LIZZO'S WATCH OUT FOR THE BIG GRRRLS (for which DFT provides #post!), and what it means to be a voice of #inclusion and #representation.

#Lizzo #LizzosBigGrrrls #SNL #PostProduction

04/12/2022

Curious what #SXSW Keynote Speaker Lizzo had to say about her next record, American politics, self-care & self-love, representation, and the DFT-posted #LizzosBigGrrrls? Tune in tomorrow for The Drop!

#Lizzo #postproduction

04/08/2022

Get to know Team DFT!

This week's hero is Paul Edmiston--DFT's Senior IO & Data Technician. Paul recently moved from overnights to the day shift, and is almost always on the front lines in terms of receiving dailies. Pre-renders, complex problem solving on the fly, Paul does it all, and he always does it with a smile (and occasionally an in-depth discussion about his beloved KC Chiefs).
#postproduction #dailies

04/06/2022

At DigitalFilm Tree we know we're a little different (or maybe a lot of different!) - it's one of our strongest attributes. We're a team of innovative and outside-the-box thinkers, creators, problem solvers and leaders in new technology.

That can be and feel like relentless excellence. The larger factor inside these walls (and Zooms because hybrid is real) is a genuine respect, care and prioritization of the Human behind all of that achievement and progress.

We're committed to people first. Our goal is, and has always been, to give home to the Storyteller - which it's so often forgotten that the very people working on "client stories" are Storytellers themselves.

If you're a big thinker, someone who prizes curiosity, lives somewhere between the "what COULD it look like" and the "what can we achieve today" we want to meet you.

If you're detail oriented *to the point that checklists run your day, calendars are a work of art and communication is king*, we want to talk to you.

If you understand that people come first, that there is impact on the other side of actions or inaction, and you're ready, willing and EXCITED by the idea of being a key member on a growing team of humble yet heroic Post (and Pre and Prod) innovators, we want to hear from you.

Check out the listings, and we're adding Dailies Coordinator to this next - Comp Supervisors and VFX Producer/Supervisors please immediately reach out directly or through the link below.