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OUTPUTTING FROM FCP FOR PROJECTION
Hi There Everybody,
I am fairly new to the world of digital cinema and a film that I directed just made it into a film festival. I am now preparing for final output to projection media and am wondering if there are any special steps I should take that will help to insure the integrity of the projected image. I don’t have access to a projector powerful enough to mock the festival specs or a screening room.
Here are my specs if they help…
projection format: mini-dv
aspect ratio: 16×9
originally shot on: dvx100a
editing software: final cut 4.5
monitosr: apple studio, mitsubishi diamond plus 73 (both calibrated as well as I possibly could do myself)Thanks!
Danny
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7 Replies
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is your footage in interlaced or progressive?
Alexander Gao
“When the revolution happens, I’ll be leading it.”
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What will the festival take as a master tape?
The best quality you can get is DV, so if you output to DV tape. That is the highest quality you can deliver.
Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
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I believe the 24p camera is progressive scan footage…
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I am outputting to Mini DV but I am wondering about the color correction and IRE levels etc…
Thanks for responding…
D
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There is nothing of value anyone could possibly tell you without seeing the project. If you are concerned, then take the DV output to a professional colorist and see what you can wrangle from them for a profesional tape to tape color correction. There is nothing that will give your project a more unified look, and a professional colorist will be able to tweak the black levels and contrast for optimal projection as well. If you go this route, make certain to remove all color prior correction before taking the project to a colorist, as you will add noise if you correct twice.
DRW
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Thanks for the advice, I don’t really have the money or the time for a colorist but hopefully someday… I used the broadcast colors filter in FCP and put 30 sec. of FCP generated Colorbars and 30 Seconds of black which they (the festival projectionists) so I guess thats about all I can do from home correct?
Thanks again for the post.
Danny
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Well, there’s lots you could do, but if you’re just learning color technique you could mess things up fairly easily. Unless something really stands out to your eye as unacceptable, you should be okay.
Just for the record, did the broadcast colors filter improve the look of your project throughout? If not, then take it off. These universal one step filters are not always a good idea, especially if your material was pretty well shot to begin with.
DRW
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