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16 mm film to HDTV
Hello Folks,
I have some questions about getting to high definition TV from 16 mm film. Here is my workflow:
Film on Eclair ALC Super16 mm camera (16×9).
Transfer to hard drive, not sure of all options yet (1920×1080).
Take into or Premiere Pro CS3 and AfterEffects to edit
Export from one of the above (trying to retain as much quality as possible)
Encode for Blue Ray.
Burn to Blue Ray Disk.I know that everyone doesn’t have a blue ray burner/player at the moment.
Most of what I’ll be shooting we be more valuable to me (and my kids) in the years to come, not necessarily right now. What is high end at the moment will be considered standard before we all know it. So it’s important that when I have my film transferred to Hard Drive it’s the best quality as I can afford. I’m thinking 2K or 1920×1080 scans for the 16mm film.
I want to be able to play this footage in the highest quality on HDTV in the near future. I can keep my raw 16 mm on a hard drive and as the technology advances, I’ll be able to re-render and output again. It won’t be a long movie(s), most likely 20 minutes or so. My computer is a PC that is around 2 years old and has 2 gigs of RAM. I’m not sure of the processor at the moment, but I’m concerned it’s not going to have the stones to handle scans of this size. I could use lower res compressed versions of my scans and substitute by proxy at rendering time in AfterEffects.So my two questions would be; is there anything I should be aware of in my workflow in terms of potential snags?
What recommendations are there in terms of retaining the highest quality? I think the most variables lye in rendering (codec) and encoding at this point.
Thanks in advance for any help tossed my way.Tom
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