Any Advise on working PPro 2.0 and transfer to film?
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VaricamLife
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The main thing you need to do is find out from the place that will do the film print for you, how they want the materials delievered. No use doing anything until you know what you need to provide to them. Otherwise you could waste a bunch of time and effort.
Otherwise, your two main options (as far as I can process right now anyway) are:
1) Rent a VTR that is a format equivalent to what you shot it at the least, or preferrably even higher/better quality. Make sure the VTR and your system have compatible connections (whether it be firewire, SDI, or whatever). Then just do a standard output to tape. The film lab can then likely go from that to their machines (but really why you must talk to them first).
2) Export the entire timeline (movie) as an image sequence. I would recommend using TIFFs or TARGAs. Dump all of that to external hard drive(s) and give it to the film lab. Then each image will be one film frame. I was asked to do this for one project I assisted on a few years ago. Not sure how many labs will want it delivered that way though.
cheers.
Otherwise, your two main options (as far as I can process right now anyway) are:
1) Rent a VTR that is a format equivalent to what you shot it at the least, or preferrably even higher/better quality. Make sure the VTR and your system have compatible connections (whether it be firewire, SDI, or whatever). Then just do a standard output to tape. The film lab can then likely go from that to their machines (but really why you must talk to them first).
2) Export the entire timeline (movie) as an image sequence. I would recommend using TIFFs or TARGAs. Dump all of that to external hard drive(s) and give it to the film lab. Then each image will be one film frame. I was asked to do this for one project I assisted on a few years ago. Not sure how many labs will want it delivered that way though.
cheers.
khmuse
Tech Guru
For any project which is destine for film output the best advise that I can offer is to test your process throughly first (all the way through the post path). Its just too expensive to leave anything to chance. Negotiate with the film output house for a great rate for a short test prior to beginning principal photography. Test under conditions and locations that will be as similar to your finished project as possible (perhaps shot during your location scouting phase).
