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WalkingRun

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My film was shot on 16mm, transfered to dvcam and edited on final cut pro... I have entered my film into a festival that wants the final output on digibeta. Is this possible and what would be the cost. any help from someone who has been through the process would be great. thanks so much!
 
Sure. There are tons of places in NYC that would take your DVCam output and bump it to digibeta. I'm not in NY so I can't recommend any one over another, but it's easily accomplished at any tape dubbing place or any post house as well.

Maybe somebody from NYC can recommend a place but my only other suggestion would be to supply your own tape stock if possible so you're not paying $50 for the digibeta tape.

Hey, congratulations on getting your film into a festival. :thumbup:
 
Thanks so much for your response. I was wondering though if it is possible to get the finished edited version formatted to digibeta rather than exporting it to dvd. For example, my rough footage was on dvcam and uploaded to final cut, edited, and this was fine. Now I want to take the finished edited version and put it on digibeta for the festival screening. I believe this is possible but wanted to make sure because I´m not in New York until next week. Thanks so much for your help, i greatly appreciate it!:dankk2:
 
I would think the easiset way would be to go back to DVCam and drop the tape off at whoever is going to do the dub to DigiBeta. I agree, I really wouldn't want to go from DVD to Digibeta since you have a whole new level of compression added in there.

If you can't go back to DVCam for some reason, then I'd suggest going from hard-drive to DigiBeta. Again, I don't know names of places that will definitly do this, but I'm sure all the major telecine places can. It's just going to cost more money than doing a straight bump up from tape-to-tape.

You can ballpark a price by calling the big names like Technicolor and DuArt. I'm sure they can both do it, although my personal experience tells me that a house that's not also a film lab will probably get you better service and even price. But they should be able to tell you what it might cost you.

You can also try PMing a couple of the known New Yorkers on these forums who aren't necessarily reading this particular thread.

Good luck, and post back here when you get it done. You never know who might be doing a search a year from now and really benefit from the info.

WalkingRun said:
Thanks so much for your response. I was wondering though if it is possible to get the finished edited version formatted to digibeta rather than exporting it to dvd. For example, my rough footage was on dvcam and uploaded to final cut, edited, and this was fine. Now I want to take the finished edited version and put it on digibeta for the festival screening. I believe this is possible but wanted to make sure because I´m not in New York until next week. Thanks so much for your help, i greatly appreciate it!:dankk2:
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Thanks so much for everything, I will let you know how things work out and post the info when everything is complete.
 
Texanite said:
Mind telling us the running time and the cost? I'm curious.
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Running time was 60 minutes, I'd rather not quote the cost. But we were in and out in three hours (we layed it off twice, a version with titles and a textless version). Contact them if you need pricing.
 
any dub house will help you out. May as well make a few copies for other festivals.
I have never submitted a dbeta to any festival. I bet if you ask, beta sp would be just fine.
 
grinner said:
I have never submitted a dbeta to any festival. I bet if you ask, beta sp would be just fine.
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Yep, there's nothing like projecting from an obsolete analog tape format to give your film the lo-fi aesthetic that distributors and broadcasters are after these days!

"Hello, Sundance? Do you guys happen to have a VHS deck?"
 
LOL, yeah seriously.

I didn't submit my music video to any film festivals that wanted anything but DVD, because it was too annoying. 95% of film festivals are fine with DVD submissions, a few will even take Blu-ray discs (nice...), but a few out there wanted other formats and it wasn't worth my time even submitting to those film festivals. Honestly get with the times. If you are encouraging indie filmmakers to submit, allow DVD copies for submissions. That's what everyone shows everything on anyway.
 
plexi said:
Yep, there's nothing like projecting from an obsolete analog tape format to give your film the lo-fi aesthetic that distributors and broadcasters are after these days!

"Hello, Sundance? Do you guys happen to have a VHS deck?"
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no, they have beta SP decks. The last time I enetered Dbeta tapes were not accepted at all.
Some festivals will indeed accept DVDs (and VHS tapes). I assumed we were not talking about the local promotions though.

obsolete? when was the last time you broadcasted anything? It's still the standard. Not sure what to make of the aesthetic remark. You do know that Dbeta is comressed at 2:1 and beta SP is not, right? I sense very little experience in your remarks.
 
The question on this thread wasn't about submissions, it was about the exhibition format. Of course festivals accept DVDs as submission screeners. But once you're accepted, Sundance, SXSW, and most other major festivals only accept digibeta or HD-CAM now for video projection. SXSW will only project from HD-CAM. The major festivals are all high-def now.

And Grinner, I've done broadcast deals in the past year with PBS, BBC, Sundance Channel, and Showtime. None of these networks accept beta sp anymore.
 
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