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16mm to hd to dvd options
my client wants to make a pal dvd from his 2 hour 16mm film. i’m looking to do some edits and colour correction to the piece in fcp 5 before burning a pal sd dvd studio pro master. its my first project to originate from film.
i’m considering a workflow which involves telecine to uncompressed hd then downsample to dvvcpro hd or 24p hd to do the fcp work, assuming colour correction at the higher resolution will give better results.
I have a couple of queries, 1. what hd format is best to telecine to to ensure the best quality sould he wish to print a new film later and 2. am i right thinking that working in hd format will get better results than sd and if so, what are the pros/cons between dvcpro hd and 24phd.
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I would telecine to digital beta tape and color correct in telecine. With the digital beta tape in pal SD then burn a copy to mini DV to edit in FCP. Edit in FCP and take your final edit to video and Edit Dissision list to an online post and cut online with the digi beta master using EDL to cut to digi beta which is now your master edit which you can make DVD copies. With the digi beta master, he go out to film in the future all this in standard definition video. The 16mm is the original hd format that will provide great quality and film look based on the technology in the film itself. I have would recomend you transfer to HD at the start, but since your editting in SD and delevering in SD you would be just creating problems. Good luck with this project and I hope this helps.
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Thanks for the advice Webfilms. Working in SD seems a good way to go, just thinking of the HD issues you mentioned. As I’ve got a Cinewave RT system here I think I can work in targa cine 16.
The film is actually 25 years old so converting it to digital format is as much an exercise in archiving and restoration in addition to creating a commercial DVD. I’m thinking the best way to go for restoration work is to have the Telecine outfit do whatever restoration work is necessary then deliver uncompressed 10bit master on disk. Does this sound feasible?
One query on your advice, not having a digibeta deck, would I not be better working with a hard disk based original to offline/online from?
Cheers and thanks again for the input.
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