[Michael Brennan]

So the conversion boxes turn it into a interlace look?

Mike

[Michael Brennan]

Try and get a grade for film out as well as a TV version.

If not go for a film grade. Retweaking a film grade for TV is a better approach than the other way around. (it would only take resetting some gammas and shaodow levels to get the film grade “close” to TV.

Keep a copy of non graded master.

Hard to comment beyond my general observations on the original camera setup lighting ect.
Someone who regularly shoots HD f900 may be able to let you know if what you did was in the zone or over-protective of highlights at the expense of shadow detail.
I’ve seen rushes from movies where there was no significant highlight detail above 80 ire. Not saying this was the case with your material.

Mike Brennan

[Michael Brennan]

Hi James,
was DCC on?
Looks like you shot with shutt off, so movement will be blurred.
Gamma number 6 would have been better.
Don’t use LCDs for contrast evaluation and black detail evaluation.

I don’t follow your comment about not knowing what to do if you don’t know what the final release is going to be.
This is what grading is for!

Tell me, if you shoot film in broad daylight would you use fill?

Mike Brennan

[Michael Brennan]

If there is no sound involved and if the action can stand being slowed down you can simply playout the footage from the VTR at 23.98.

Otherwise you are into either software or hardware conversion processes.
Snell and Wilcox and Teranix make excellent frame rate conversion boxes. However results vary depending on subject matter as they use temporal convesion processing pixel by pixel.

Mike Brennan