Anyone had their dslr feature/short on the big screen?

blake2404

blake2404

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Just curious what they thought of the quality and if it was hdcam or scanned to film

Considering such a project

Thanks
 
Any thought on how a dslr might look on mainstream theatre projection.......are theaters only using film transfers or do they do video projection?
 
Most newer theaters are all digital but a lot of older ones are mixed. Some analog and some digital. The digital projectors load a hard drive that stores the film with a separate encryption system. I've had stuff fr hv30s shown on bluray but it was through an alternate projector that they use for the previews. Even that at 720p looked phenomenal.
 
obviously 4k would be ideal.....but with that being said these camera's should necissarily worry a filmmaker who may have plans for general theatrical release? Good to know about the hv30 btw.....was my first serious filmmaking tool, loved it.
 
One of my shorts premiered in a theater with poor lighting, we ended up doing DVD due to some issues at the time and it looked fine. Not as good as the Blu-Ray, but still good. I also played the media file through a media player into a professional projector as a test while I was working as the technical director for a film festival. I tested a lot of films in different formats, a decent handful on DVD and quite a few shot on cameras that are of lower quality than current HDSLRs. None of them stood out as not holding up, especially if the shot selection and story worked. That's still more important than anything. Moire and jello are exaggerated when you blow up the image, but if your footage isn't full of it no one will notice a little. I heard a lot of comments about my short looking cinematic, like any mainstream film, even when I shot it with no lighting and no time. Theaters are designed to be a great way to show movies, and they do a lot of favors with anything you throw on the screen.
 
On the big screen? Try a Google search for the documentary film released in Oct 2011: Hell and Back Again. As audience, none needs to know which cameras were used in shooting the movie, but... it was a 5D II.

Nowadays, more and more pro filmmakers use DSLRs. If you are like most audience, you probably don't care about the fact that a movie you are watching was made out of DSLR footage.
 
Amazing results with the t2i i must say........what picture profile were you using?

anyways great job
 

I shot this clip for an event at the Alamo Drafthouse here in Austin, TX. Even though it was 1080p all the way through the post-process, the end result ended up on DVD. I was very impressed by how good it looked on the big screen at the Alamo, but, then again, it's the Alamo!

I have never seen a DSLR feature-length film in a theater. I might see that NAVY SEALs movie from Hurlbut when it comes out (have no idea of its merits as a movie, but I'm interested to see what Hollywood-level post can do for the PQ).
 
I saw the preview trailer for Shane Hulburts movie "Act Of Valor" last week in the theater and it looks good. Just as good as all the other trailers I saw.
 
Yeah, think i'm gonna check this out. It will be a great view of how the 5d performs on the big screen especially considering its reputation as being a bit "soft".

However......lol.......if you look into it you realize he is using very high end ziess lenses. Would be interesting to see something using lenses more applicable to what us general folks can afford.

It's funny my fiance asked me...."well what's more important then, the camera body or the lenses?" Ha, ha...well, wonder how the high end wide 2.8 zooms from canon and nikon would compare to the ziess primes.
 
Canon and Zeiss are competitors and you'll likely find 50% of people who love one, 50% who love the other. They're both quite sharp and will engineered.

We just had two screenings of a film with some DSLR footage as well as RED and varicam. Huge screen being fed by a 1080p Bluray disc. Looked just lovely, and you never thought about what camera was what, just weather the performances were good, the shot in focus, the lighting correct, etc.
 
Thanks cosimo, Hmmmm, still though.....everyone gets ampe up about seeing something like "act of valor"........but lets be real, at least from my end. I might acquire a comparable lens and be able to trick out some good lighting....but in the end the film is more of a reflection of what the filmmakers were able to achieve than what the camera can do in general......that being said it's a great camera, but just a tool.

Replace "act of valor" 5d footy with a gh2 and we'd essentially have the same image.
 
well u can always see "like crazy" that was shot on the 7d and zeiss superspeeds. I think its running now isnt it?
 
Yeah you know something, i saw the trailer in the theatre for "like crazy" a while back having no idea it was a 7d........Again using high end lenses and a 6 figure budget but i digress, pretty impressive none the less.
 
just curious how they projected your films....dvd, bluray, hdcam?

also what camera did you sue for your films.

Good for you though
 
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