Master Print of Movie?

Staven

Staven

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Say I have a feature completed, and want to make a master print of the film to keep locked in a dungeon somewhere. Do mini dv tapes exist that can hold up to 2hrs of footage? What is the best option for this?

If I was to store it on an external, would I be storing the Final Cut Sequence it is on, or an exported Quicktime?

Also, I used the ana adapter. If I print to tape it is squished. If I took it like that to a post house to say make me dvd's, will they be able to automatically unsqueeze and make into 16:9? What about a quicktime version, it also would be squished?

Basically I'm clueless as to what I'm gonna do once I've done my project. Thanks for any help.
 
Re: Master Print of Movie?

Technically you could get 2 hours on a miniDV tape (if you used an 80-minute tape in LP mode) but you wouldn't want to -- that would be a pretty lame way to archive your project.

You could dub it to a large-format DVCAM tape, which would be a little safer, and they hold 3 hours.

Or you could make a DVD of it...
 
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In regards to the 'squished' widescreen image:

Any post house making DVD masters could easily flag the DVD as anamorphic. Most DVDs you can buy today are anamorphic, and your DVD player automatically scales down the image to fit your 4:3 tv (and seemingly gives you "black bars").

The DVD will be encoded squished, but whenever you watch it, it'll be in the proper dimensions (assuming the DVD player it's being screen from is set up properly).
 
Re: Master Print of Movie?

Yes, output to something like DVCam or DVCPro media both of which can hold 2+ hours (given the right tape size).

As for storing on an external (I'm assuming you mean external hard drive), you would idealy want to store the finished edit as a completely self contained file (i.e. quicktime .mov) for faster/easier DVD encoding, printing to tape, etc. and the actual project file (without source) so that you can recapture your footage and make changes if you want to in the future.  However, if you reuse or otherwise trash your source tapes, forget about the project file, as there's no going back and re-editing once you've done that (unless you keep a digital copy of your source).
 
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I would also archive a digital file version of the movie to an optical format for long time archive such as DVD-ROM etc. This file would ne the native DV files on disk of the final movie.
 
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I don't think you could fit 2 hours of native DV on a standard DVD (4.7GB). 2 hours of DV would amount to about 24GB. You couldn't even fit that on Sony's first generation Blu-ray discs (only 20GB).
 
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Since these are just files, there is no need or concern to try to fit it all one DVD disck. Archive is archive, not a platback medium. Native DV is ~5 mins/gig, you get 20 monites per DVD. basically in film terms, you get one sound mix reel on each DVD. This would be 6 DVD discs for archive. At $2 a pop for the media, it works for me.

Digital Cinema movie content is shipped on 8-16 DVD discs...

Michael
 
Re: Master Print of Movie?

Agreed. No problem with multiple discs, just a lot of burning :)

Can't wait till DVD-Rs get as cheap as CD-Rs ;D
 
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