huge projection

[Rodrigo Jorquiera]

OK, I’m in NY now with the Varicam latest firmware upgrade. Thanks a lot to Steve Mahrer for all his great help and friendship !!. What a great guy. The Panasonic facilty is awesome. And his future plans looks great.
About the huge projection, it was on the biggest screen of my country and it looked truly amazing !!!!. Resolution was incredible. The filmout process was done by Efilm in L.A. The color wasn’t really what I was looking at my monitor but the test was really a sucess. Everything looked sharp, wide shoots, medium shoots and there’s a close up where everybody in the room said wow !!!.
Besides the model was one of the most beatiful girls over there.
Everybody who’s having doubts about doing stuffs with the Varicam for filmout, please I encourage you to do it !!. The footage looked really, really great and very film like.
The process i used was quite simple and the uprez to 1080 was using the Panasonic Frame Rate converter. Color correction under Final Cut Pro monitoring on a PVM20L5/1 monitor. The card was a Cinewave HD on a dual G4 who handled it perfectly !!. Lenses where a Fujinon HAf Prime lens set and a Fujinon zoom.

Best regards to all.

[Rodrigo Lizana]

OK, I’m in NY now with the Varicam latest firmware upgrade. Thanks a lot to Steve Mahrer for all his great help and friendship !!. What a great guy. The Panasonic facilty is awesome. And his future plans looks great.
About the huge projection, it was on the biggest screen of my country and it looked truly amazing !!!!. Resolution was incredible. The filmout process was done by Efilm in L.A. The color wasn’t really what I was looking at my monitor but the test was really a sucess. Everything looked sharp, wide shoots, medium shoots and there’s a close up where everybody in the room said wow !!!.
Besides the model was one of the most beatiful girls over there.
Everybody who’s having doubts about doing stuffs with the Varicam for filmout, please I encourage you to do it !!. The footage looked really, really great and very film like.
The process i used was quite simple and the uprez to 1080 was using the Panasonic Frame Rate converter. Color correction under Final Cut Pro monitoring on a PVM20L5/1 monitor. The card was a Cinewave HD on a dual G4 who handled it perfectly !!. Lenses where a Fujinon HAf Prime lens set and a Fujinon zoom.

Best regards to all.

Rodrigo Lizana
PIXINE
http://www.pixine.cl
rlizana@pixine.cl

[Rodrigo Lizana]

Sorry the double post. I was in my fiend’s computer and forgot to sign myself in !!! but it was me posting to times…shame…

Rodrigo Lizana
PIXINE
http://www.pixine.cl
rlizana@pixine.cl

[Noah Kadner]

Great report- glad to hear it went well. 🙂

-Noah

[Paul Mogg]

Hi Rodrigo,
Thanks for the great posting. I have too many questions I’m sure, but could you please comment on how much the colour changed from what you’d see on your editing monitor to the final projected output? Does the colour wash-out a lot? I’m going through a similar process and was wondering if I had to do a film-out, would it be advisable to ourput a kind of super-saturated digital version to compensate for any loss in colour saturation caused by the film transfer. Also, did you shoot in Film Rec. or Video Rec. and did you online uncompressed? The new rendering in FCP 5.0 looks so good that I’m wondering how much gain there is in onlining uncompressed for just straight cuts sections that only have mild colour correction.

Many thanks in advance,

Paul

[Paul Thurston]

Hola Rodrigo,

Great to hear what you’re doing. For those of us who actually live in Chile, could you tell us how long was the piece, what exactly did you shoot, Did you have any problems with Chilean customs when bringing in the projection prints, what was the process you followed for the sound? How much did all the work cost in the States? What theater did you watch your project at?

Regards,
Paul Thurston

[Rodrigo Lizana]

Hello Noah !

Good to hear from you again. Hope everything is workig out well for you in the states !!

Regards

[Rodrigo Lizana]

[Paul Mogg] “comment on how much the colour changed from what you’d see on your editing monitor to the final projected output?”

Well it was less saturated (not really much) and looked a little bit brighter compared with the monitor I was looking at. Color was twisted into some magenta direction but nothing at all that can

[Rodrigo Lizana]

Hi Paul, Were you the one who wrote for Chileimagen (on-off) ?…
The piece was one minute long and it was basically different shot of a girl at a cafe. A lot of time for getting the prints. They hold it for several days. The test had no sound at all and I watched it at Cinemark.

Best regards

Rodrigo

[Paul Thurston]

Hola Rodrigo,

Yes, I