DITools

Overview

DITools bundles the daily workflows of an on-set DIT into one dark-themed interface. Every module keeps its own settings, activity log, and state; the sidebar (or ⌥↑/⌥↓) switches between them without interrupting running work.

Module settings persist automatically and can be exported/imported as JSON from the Settings page for sharing between workstations.

System Requirements

Installation

1. Copy DITools.app to /Applications (or run it from any folder).
2. On first launch, macOS may warn that the app is from an unidentified developer — the beta is ad-hoc signed. Right-click the app, choose Open, then confirm.
3. Grant permission prompts as modules need them (Location for FreqCheck Wi-Fi names, Full Disk Access for DiskSpeed Spotlight control).

Projectz

Generate standardized DIT day-folder structures.

Set the job number, job/client name, production company, shoot dates, and output directory, then create ready-to-use day folders with OCN, transcode, audio, and DIT subfolders. A live preview shows exactly what will be created.

• OCN options (ORIGINAL_CAMERA_NEGATIVE_ONLINE, OCN, custom), transcode presets (DNxHD 36, DNxHR LB, ProRes Proxy/LT, three custom slots), and audio (AUDIO, MOS, custom).
• DIT output folders: DOCUMENTS, FRAMING_CHARTS, LOGS, LUTS, RESOLVE_PROJECT, SILVERSTACK_LIBRARY, STILLS, plus two custom subfolders.
• Multi-day naming (DAY01_OF_DAY03), numbered subdirectories, date-as-prefix, and date formats of YYYYMMDD, MMDDYYYY, or DDMMYYYY — with an optional Dashes in dates checkbox for 2026-08-07-style dates. Synq's date-mismatch warning understands both spellings.
• A Starting day offset (typed field + stepper, 1–99) numbers folders from the day you join — offset 5 on a 3-day selection yields DAY05_OF_DAY07.
• The UPPERCASE option (on by default) writes Job Number, Job Name / Client, and Production Co. in UPPERCASE in the generated folder names; the fields keep exactly what you type, so Labelz labels and the Framelinez leader title are unaffected.
• Typed names are made filesystem-safe automatically — whitespace and reserved punctuation (\ / : * ? " < > |) collapse to underscores, invisible format characters are removed, and leading/trailing dots are dropped, in both the preview and the created folders.

Framelinez

Build frame lines and framing-chart leaders for cinema cameras.

Framelinez is the standalone CineFrameline app hosted inside DITools, behavior unchanged. Pick a Sony VENICE/BURANO, ARRI, RED, Blackmagic (URSA Cine 12K LF/17K 65, PYXIS 12K/6K, URSA Mini Pro 12K), FUJIFILM GFX ETERNA 55, GoPro (MISSION 1 series, HERO13 Black), iPhone (Blackmagic Camera for iOS), Vision Research Phantom, or PixBoom sensor mode — or a user-defined Custom canvas — add up to three frame line sets with per-line aspect ratio, scale, offsets, opacity, and styling, and watch the preview update live over a framing-chart leader.

• Frame lines fit the sensor or nest ARRI-style inside another line (Fit Inside), with locked aspect ratios that cascade when the container changes. Scaling accepts two decimals.
• Sensor Info reads out the Maximum Capture Rate for the exact camera, sensor mode, recording format, and codec selected (with license/media/mode qualifiers where the manufacturer states them); unpublished combinations say "Not published" and legacy combined Phantom entries say "Varies by model". Phantom cameras are now listed per body (Flex4K, VEO4K 990/590, Flex 2.5K, VEO 640).
• The Compare preview tab draws sensors — and standards-based film formats from Regular 8 through Super 35, 65mm 5-perf, IMAX 15-perf, VistaVision, and the 70mm print aperture — to true physical scale with color-keyed references and a legend of dimensions and diagonal crop factors; film rows carry role badges (camera capture vs telecine/projection), cited SMPTE/ISO/ARRI/BKSTS authorities, procedural film-strip rendering, and optional extraction overlays. Export Image writes the chart.
• Frame leader elements drag freely with right-click justification and Center Horizontally/Vertically; the Title can fill from the Projectz module, Director/DoP rows offer DIR:/DoP: prefixes and a cinematography-society suffix dropdown, and the camera-info caption can split into one detail per line.
• Exports camera-ready frame line files per manufacturer, framing-chart leader images (PNG/JPEG/TIFF or true-vector SVG with outlined text, named layers, and real millimetre document size), ASC FDL (validated by the official ASC reference core), and transparent ColorBox overlay PNGs scaled into 4K DCI / UHD / 2K / HD containers (frame lines and center marks only).
• iPhone 17 Pro/Pro Max offer Open Gate Internal (1920 x 1440) and Open Gate External · ProRes RAW (4224 x 3024 to an external USB-C drive).
• Setup share links use the legacy veniceflt:// scheme, so links made in standalone CineFrameline still paste in.
• Projects autosave to the same Application Support location as the standalone app — existing work carries over automatically.

Labelz

Author and print label sets for drive deliverables.

Labelz reads the active Project's identity and builds drive, box, and warning labels. Add drives, assign copy roles (MASTER, CLONE, VFX, SHUTTLE — with configurable house-style display terms), set per-drive audio and dailies codec, or import drives from a completed Sync job.

• Mounted-volume autofill attaches serial and capacity via DiskArbitration.
• Drive X of Y numbers the complete deliverable set across roles; box labels list contents with a CONTAINS N DRIVES count and degrade gracefully on narrow media.
• Save Set / Load Set writes a reprintable JSON spec that reproduces byte-identical rasters later.

Synq

Mirror camera media from a source to up to eight destinations per slot, twice over.

Two independent sync slots each take one source and one to eight destinations, run simultaneously or sequentially, with live per-destination progress (current file, %, speed, ETA, byte and file counts).

• Bundled GNU rsync 3.4.1 with fast or thorough modes and optional xxh64 checksum comparison; native cp fallback with honest no-progress state.
• Destination preflight checks permissions and capacity; a pre-run source check blocks stale unmounted paths.
• Date Mismatch Warning flags destinations whose 8-digit date tokens disagree — the classic wrong-day client-drive mistake — before anything copies.
• Per-destination temporary disable (eye toggle) skips a drive without clearing its path; disabled drives are logged, never silently dropped.
• Optional global sync log plus per-destination rsync_log.txt; optional auto-eject of the Sync 1 source after success.
• ASC MHL seal after copy (off by default): each destination gets a chain-of-custody generation written after its copy succeeds, in the ASC reference tool's exact format. The sealed folder follows rsync's own trailing-slash rule — a source without a trailing slash seals the copied card folder, a source with one seals the destination itself. Re-syncing creates the next generation with existing hashes re-verified. Sealing adds a full re-read of the destination, and a slot isn't complete (and Sync 1 won't auto-eject) until its seals are written.

FileCompare

Compare mounted drives or directories against a reference.

• Add paths manually or pull every drive from /Volumes; set any drive as the reference, or let Auto Reference pick one matching _1/_01-style names (with Settings filters for camera rolls, the startup volume, and an excluded directory).
• Attribute comparison for size, modification date, and creation date; optional rsync -avn --delete dry-run comparison.
• Filters for hidden items, .mhl, GoodSync _gsdata_, .DS_Store, and custom extensions.
• Cancellable runs discard partial results — a cancelled comparison can never report real files as missing.

RenderCheck

Verify every camera original has a matching transcode.

Two independent check slots each compare a Camera Originals folder against a Transcodes folder and flag anything missing.

• Source formats: .mov, .mxf, .r3d, .cine, .mp4, .ari, .arx, .dng, .braw, .krw, .crm; transcode matching against .mov and .mxf with optional suffix stripping (e.g. _LT).
• RED R3D span and DJI DNG sequence handling; Avid audio-companion (_A1.mxf) skipping.
• Camera-original gap detection for RED/BMD/Canon _Cnnn, ARRI/Venice Cnnn, and iPhone-style trailing numbers.

TreeGen

Produce text inventories of one or more directories.

• Recursive tree output with standard connectors, per-file and recursive directory sizes, and optional skip-hidden.
• Auto Detect Drives adds mounted externals from /Volumes using the shared Auto Reference filters.
• Output writes INDEX_OF_<directory>_<timestamp>.txt inside the scanned directory; the target is validated as writable before the walk starts.
• Cancellable — a partial file is kept and ends with a [CANCELLED — TREE INCOMPLETE] marker.

Housekeeping

Clean render artifacts: trash DRX and CDL files, fix RED proxy names.

FreqCheck

Multi-band RF coordinator and analyzer: 2.4 GHz lens control, 900 MHz camera control, 5/6 GHz wireless video, and custom sweeps.

2.4 Lens Control (default)

• Channel maps for Preston G4/BD (30 ch, 2 MHz), ARRI WCU-4/HI-5 (14 ch, 5 MHz), and Cmotion CPRO (14 ch, 5 MHz), with multiple units per manufacturer.
• Exact and near-conflict detection with a configurable 1–20 MHz proximity threshold, drawn on a 2400–2480 MHz spectrum display.
• Optional HackRF live receive-only sweep (bundled libhackrf/libusb) with auto-scan interval, LNA/VGA gain, and sweep count controls; Wi-Fi-only fallback via CoreWLAN; mock scan mode for testing without hardware.

Analyzer profiles

• 900 Camera Control — 902–928 MHz stitched sweep with BitBox NA / SPUDNIK reference-range overlays (reference only — energy is never attributed to a product), an editable region-dependent 868 MHz sub-preset, user markers, and quiet-candidate ranking at 1/2/4/8 MHz widths. Automatic-frequency-selection products may change channels during observation.
• 5 GHz Video — 5150–5850 MHz with U-NII sub-band and DFS reference boundaries, 20/40 MHz candidate ranking matching Teradek Bolt 4K channel modes, a toggleable Bolt 4K reference overlay (Bolt 4K hops frequencies by default unless fixed-frequency mode is set; DFS frequencies need a 1-minute scan before use), and CoreWLAN 5 GHz network names shown separately as metadata (never as spectrum). A quiet region is not automatically legal to use.
• 6 GHz Video — Teradek Bolt 6 U-NII-5 context (5925–6425 MHz). With a classic HackRF/H4M+ the receiver measures only up to 6.000 GHz: the unmeasured remainder is hatched, excluded from rankings, and flagged with a persistent PARTIAL COVERAGE warning. A detected HackRF Pro (tunable to 7.1 GHz) measures the full span; 6.0–7.1 GHz is flagged as above the Pro's operating specification.
• Custom — user start/stop/candidate width with validation against the receiver's 1 MHz–6 GHz range, optional reference marker, and savable presets.
• Trace / Waterfall / Split display with a bounded-history waterfall (pause, clear, adjustable depth, auto or manual levels, hover readout) and a Clear/Caution/Busy/Stale/Partial/Unmeasured candidate table.

ExpoDelta

Compare two camera exposures in stops, and solve LED-wall EI.

Compare tab

Side-by-side inputs for base FPS, shooting/off-speed FPS, ND, shutter (angle or speed, bidirectionally converted), T-stop, and EI. The stop breakdown itemizes frame rate, shutter, T-stop, ND, and EI deltas; ND uses true optical-density math (ND 3.0 = 9.97 stops). Camera presets cover Venice 1/2, Alexa 35, Mini LF, V-RAPTOR, and Phantom.

Screen NITs tab

Solves EI = K·N² / (t·L) for an LED-volume wall from its measured patch nits (100% white or 18% gray), snaps to the nearest standard third-stop EI, and recommends cine ND toward a target EI. The shutter readout shows the exact reciprocal (23.976 at 180° reads 1/47.952 s, not 1/48).

FlickerFree

Find flicker-free shutter angles for any frame rate.

• Frame rates 1–120 FPS including fractional NTSC rates; flicker source of 50 or 60 Hz mains (treated as a 100/120 Hz source) or a custom frequency, with an offline country picker.
• Lists every safe angle up to 360° with equivalent shutter speed and exposure delta vs 180°; the angle closest to 180° is flagged as the recommended start.
• Phase-locked rates (e.g. 24/30/60 FPS at 60 Hz) are detected and reported as "all shutter angles are safe"; impossible pairs get a higher-frequency suggestion.

DiskSpeed

Measure sustained read/write throughput on target directories.

• Single Large 8K File mode (1–64 GB presets or custom) and 8K Image Sequence mode with per-frame flush — reported speeds are true sustained rates, never buffer-fill spikes.
• Simultaneous or sequential multi-directory testing with live current/peak speeds, cycle counts, and comparison cards; targets persist across launches.
• Optional Spotlight disable on target drives via mdutil (needs Full Disk Access), verified after every change and restored automatically when a target is removed.
• Optional per-drive text report, combined project log, and CSV speed log for graphing.
• Low-level POSIX I/O with F_NOCACHE and F_FULLFSYNC; safe cleanup removes only the DITools_DiskSpeed_Test folder it created.

MultiPing

Live ping monitor for cameras and on-set network devices.

• Load NAME:IP lists (also comma- or space-separated), or add devices manually — even while monitoring runs.
• UP / DOWN / WAITING / ERROR states with latency, packet loss, and last-seen tracking; configurable refresh interval, timeout, ping count, and offline threshold.
• Preset manager (save/load/duplicate/rename/delete, TXT/JSON import-export), CSV/TXT status reports, and launch restore.
• Floating detached monitor window with Keep-on-Top that sizes itself to the visible columns and rows; Terminal Style green-on-dark theme on by default.

FrameExtract

Crop, resize, and color-stamp stills from DaVinci Resolve — originals untouched.

FrameExtract tab

• Aspect-ratio calculator: enter a source size and target ratio (decimals, 16:9, or cinema ratios 1.33–2.76) and read off the exact centered crop, per-side pixel trim, and output size — no manual algebra.
• Workflow presets include the two-pass Resolve still cleanup (1577×1080 → 1577×886) that reproduces the old Automator flow exactly, plus content-aware black-bar removal that measures real letterbox/pillarbox bars per image.
• Batch processing with live progress, optional CSV log, configurable naming (Name_FrameExtract_1577x886.ext), and JPEG/PNG/TIFF output. Sources are only ever read.

ColorStamp tab

• Bakes a .cube LUT (3D or 1D) into LiveGrade LOG stills and tags the chosen output colorspace via embedded ICC — Rec.709 (Gamma 2.4), sRGB, P3-D65, Rec.2020, and HDR PQ/HLG variants. Pixels pass to the LUT untouched; the colorspace is assigned, never converted.
• Output colorspace auto-detects from the LUT filename/title with a visible badge; manual choice always wins.
• Watch Folder mode stamps new stills automatically: FSEvents detection, a stability gate for half-written files, interval batching, a per-folder dedupe ledger, and explicit Resume on launch.

PrestonMeta

Convert Preston FI+Z lens-metadata XML to CSV.

Import one or more Preston XML files and export per-frame lens data. Each <data> row's hex values decode to focus, iris, zoom, and aux readings alongside the timecode.

1. Click Import XML… and select one or more .xml files.
2. Choose Imperial (ft) or Metric (m) focus units.
3. Click Export CSV. One file prompts for a save location; multiple files batch-export one CSV each into a chosen directory.

Output CSVs match the standalone Preston XML to CSV Converter byte-for-byte. Filenames ending in a _YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS stamp keep it: Clip_20260101_123456.xml exports as Clip_20260101_123456_Imperial.csv; anything else becomes Name_Imperial.csv / Name_Metric.csv. Malformed rows are skipped, never fatal.

MHLVerify

Verify media against its ASC MHL chain of custody, and seal new generations.

ASC MHL is the chain-of-custody format written by offload tools such as Silverstack, Hedge, and YoYotta: an ascmhl folder beside the media holds numbered generation manifests plus a chain file sealing the manifests themselves. MHLVerify re-checks all of it without ever writing a generation.

1. Drop a folder or volume onto Target, or click Choose…. Every ascmhl history at or below that folder is discovered, nested ones included.
2. Click Verify. Each manifest is checked against the chain file, then every recorded file is re-hashed with every format its history recorded — xxHash 64, XXH3 (64/128), MD5, SHA1, and C4 — in a single read pass per file.
3. Read the scope cards (generations, chain state, counts) and the file table, filterable by judgment. Export a text or CSV report for production paperwork.

Directory and root hashes recorded by the sealing tool are recomputed with the ASC reference algorithm and compared — a mismatch means the folder's sealed contents changed even if no individual file failed. Nested sealed folders (a reel folder of separately sealed cards) are verified as their own scopes and never flagged as new files of the parent. Ignore patterns recorded by the sealing tool (.DS_Store and the like) are honored.

Seal writes a new generation: pick a hash format (xxHash 64 is the on-set default) and click Seal…. A first seal creates the ascmhl history with every file recorded as original; later seals re-verify all existing hashes, document the outcome (verified, or failed with the damaged bytes' hash), and add new files as originals. The manifest and chain entry match the ASC reference implementation byte for byte — the reference ascmhl tool reads, verifies, and extends histories DITools writes, and vice versa. Sealing refuses to run when recorded files are missing, so damage is surfaced instead of buried. Media files are only ever read.

Settingz

Import, export, and manage settings for all modules.

• Universal Settings Export/Import writes one JSON covering every module — share setups between workstations or archive per-project configurations.
• Default Settings and Working Configuration paths with auto-load/auto-save toggles, plus Save Current as Working.
• FileCompare Auto Reference filters (skip camera rolls, skip startup volume, excluded directory) — shared with TreeGen's Auto Detect Drives.
• HTTP Control Server configuration and a Test-local-connection action.

All settings persist in UserDefaults under DITools.master, DITools.httpControl, and DITools.module.<module_id> keys.

HTTP Control Server

Trigger Sync from Companion, Stream Deck, or curl.

A localhost-only HTTP server (http://127.0.0.1:32132) lets Bitfocus Companion, an Elgato Stream Deck, or any HTTP client trigger approved commands — designed first for the Synq module. Control surfaces never send paths; DITools stays responsible for selected directories, options, and safety checks.

See Help → HTTP Control Server Help… for endpoint reference, Companion button setup, and troubleshooting.

Files and Configuration

Version and Support

This help describes DITools v__VERSION__ (build __BUILD__).

• Check DITools → About DITools for the exact version of your copy.
• Website: 32Thirteen.com