Hi, I’m Davide.

I studied Cinema and Media Engineering at Politecnico di Torino. My master’s thesis, “From bidding to final cut”, asks whether an independent production can run a professional pipeline without subscriptions and without uploading scripts and interviews to someone else’s cloud.

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The method

For every phase I looked for the bottleneck and built a prototype: script breakdown, storyboarding and pre-visualization, smart slate and on-set markers, the footage archive, rotoscoping. House rules: open-source or one-time-licence software, local AI, every tool replaceable, OpenUSD as the common format.

• ScriptDocBidding
• StoryAidPre-production
• SmartSlateProduction
• TheCatalogatuttinatorPost-production
• CorridorKey for NatronSide Quests

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The test bed

The test bed is a documentary about Squadra Corse PoliTo. In side quests I keep building things for the set and for post: a timecode generator, an OpenUSD converter, MoonRay for Blender.

With the tools10 hours of active work

Without the tools21 hours

With the tools the edit takes less than half the time.

• Timecode MasterSide Quests
• USDconverterSide Quests
• MoonRay for BlenderSide Quests