telecine question

[Zak Ray]

Traditionally, telecined footage comes with a 3:2 pulldown to accommodate the 24fps it was shot in with a 29.97fps workflow. If your EX footage was shot at 24, and the 35mm was as well, make sure to request it at 23.98fps without pulldown.

As for video format, 1920×1080 ProRes HQ is probably best if they can do it. You could go 2K or 4K if you wanted to (and their machine could handle it), but since you’re working mostly with EX, you might as well have it match.

[Roli Rivelino]

Hi Zak, thanks for the reply, just a quick clearing question though;

So I should ask for 23.98 fps with no pull down and 1920×1080 prores HQ.

When you say I can go 2k or 4k is that as well as the settings above or is that another option all together?

Many thanks.

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[Zak Ray]

23.98 without pulldown IF your EX footage is 23.98. If it’s 29.97, you might as well get the telecine at 29.97 (with pulldown, assuming the 35mm was shot at 24).

2K and 4K are resolutions, so they would be potential options instead of 1080. They’ll look better than 1080, but since your EX footage is 1080 (and I assume your final deliverables as well), it might be more trouble than it’s worth.

[Matthew Bradshaw]

Hi, do you mean xdcam?
Matt.

[Zak Ray]

XDCAM-EX, yes.

[Roli Rivelino]

Cool, thanks for that Zak.

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System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100