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Film Workflow Advice
Hi Everyone,
Getting ready to bring a TV spot in house and I need some advice on the workflow. Basically, we are going to get a ton of footage that we will both use for the spot as well as some other purposing down the road (web, events, whatnot) We are shooting on 16mm film. My plan is to process all of the film and then grade all of the HD dailies. That way, I will have an HD Cam tape with all of my footage for future use.
Then, for the cutting of the current TV spots, I will simply ingest as Pro-Res and then offline and color correct within Final Cut Studio 3 (then output to Digi Beta for the SD and HD Cam for the HD). Anyone see any issues with this?
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4 Replies
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That’s fairly standard. Get all your film dumped to tape as “best light.” Do a fine color grade on anything you produce from it. Just make sure you don’t crush blacks or clip whites on those initial transfers.
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Hey Aaron, I agree with what your saying, but in my mind “best light” means a fully supervised telecine session, which can get pretty costly if you’re dealing with lots of footage. Depending on the footage, I would opt to establish a couple “looks” (indoor/outdoor, etc) with the colorist and then let them do most of the session unsupervised, overnight. Like you said, the main idea is to get as much dynamic range from the negative onto tape as possible.
Tristan, are they shooting super16? The raw negative will be a 1.66:1 aspect ratio so you need to think about how you’ll be cropping it when you transfer to the 1.77:1 HD master. Make sure the shooters protect the 1.77:1 area within the super16 frame if you are planning to crop the top and bottom of the negative during transfer.
Matt Lyon
Editor
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Yeah, but you’re speaking Canadian 🙂 Here in SoCal best Light means the telecine guy sets a basic look and exposure (based on the DP’s comments) for each setup and let’s it roll through the entire setup. A full color session with clients, fancy lattes, and too many cooks in the kitchen is just called a “telecine session”
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ha ha, maybe I’m not even speaking Canadian, eh 🙂 I probably was in need of some of that fancy coffee when I wrote my post … I think most people up here would understand “best light” to mean exactly what you describe.
Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto
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