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DIT

aka Digital Imaging Technician

The digital imaging technician who manages data, backups and on-set colour for a digital camera workflow.

The DIT (digital imaging technician) owns the digital pipeline on set: offloading and backing up the camera's media to redundant drives, verifying the copies, managing the cards back to the camera department, and often applying a viewing LUT or a first-pass colour so the monitors and dailies reflect the intended look. On a data-heavy shoot they are the difference between a clean handoff to post and a lost day's footage, so their cart, drives and checksum reports are a real line on the budget and a real slot on the call sheet. The DIT works beside the camera department and the script supervisor, and hands a verified, organised drive to editorial at wrap.