Digital Media Technician Assistant – Film & TV (DFT)

This microcredential provides practical, hands-on experience using DaVinci Resolve. You will learn how to create sessions for video editorial assistants, synchronize audio and video elements, offload master media using checksum verification, perform basic colour processing of video and prepare timelines for transcoding into Avid friendly formats.

• download, backup and transfer data using standard workflows and software, including checksums for data integrity
• prepare video footage to be viewed on set with colour space transformations
• synchronize video and audio materials utilizing timecode and a slate clap
• prepare footage for editorial departments
• apply an appropriate colour space transformation to map RAW and/or logarithmic footage to an appropriate display type
• perform basic “one-light” colour correction, including white balancing a shot
• populate required metadata fields in preparation for Avid editing
• sync dual system audio and video
• identify if footage is RAW, logarithmic or in Rec709 colour spaces using DaVinci Resolve software