The Blackout: Just Wrapped Feature with XLH1

HBlack said:
What made you decide to shoot 29.97 instead of 24?
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The camera was set to 23.976. But what comes out of the HD-SDI is 3:2 at 29.97 (basically, the HD-SDI spec for all cameras, decks and devices is 29.97 but the Canon does not provide embedded timecode so the capture device doesn't know how to remove the pulldown on the fly). We capture the 29.97 stream at 29.97 and then reverse telecine'd it back to 23.976 using Cinema Tools.
 
Spartacus said:
Yeah Robert, when can we expect some moving images...?
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I'm working on it. Things change once you have investors and you're responsible for the I.P. of a decently funded picture. You can't just throw stuff on the 'net.

Just ask the "The Signal" guys.
 
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I've got the first of a couple Teaser Trailers posted on our website. You can watch the embedded Flash version or you can download Quicktime HD versions.

I'm in the middle of a more in-depth Feature Trailer, but it was taking too much time away from editing the feature. Again, this is only a small sampling of the movie itself. Because we're in the middle of finishing a ton of FX shots, some of the more bad-ass stuff can't be cut into any of the trailers yet.

WATCH THE TEASER TRAILER HERE

Enjoy!

Rob
 
Man, that looks freaking incredible. You must've had a massive budget. Everything very very pro looking.
Any idea when will it be out. I'd really love to see it.
 
rawfa said:
Man, that looks freaking incredible. You must've had a massive budget. Everything very very pro looking.
Any idea when will it be out. I'd really love to see it.
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Thanks Rawfa. We tried really hard to get the production quality as high as possible. Believe it or not, we didn't really have a lot of money on this project (about half of what "The Signal" had).
 
Elton said:
Truly bad-ass teaser. Looks incredibly promising. Congrats Rob...can't wait to see more!
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Did you watch the 1080P version? The ProRes HQ master looks great. I'm happy with how well h264 encodes from ProRes. I always felt that DVCProHD > h264 produced a lot of banding and quantization errors. But the ProRes > h264 looks pretty great. I usually have to export an uncompressed version and then encode from there.
 
Sickkkkkkkkkkkkk! That was badasss. And all with 6x and a 20x lenses. No Adapters. Proof that there is no substitute for vision.
 
Robert Sanders said:
Did you watch the 1080P version? The ProRes HQ master looks great. I'm happy with how well h264 encodes from ProRes. I always felt that DVCProHD > h264 produced a lot of banding and quantization errors. But the ProRes > h264 looks pretty great. I usually have to export an uncompressed version and then encode from there.
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Yeah, watched both the 720 and 1080--I think the 720 looked better. A little too much compression on the 1080, but I know bandwidth is always an issue.

I've had better luck encoding from ProRes too. It's a superior post codec.
 
I've said it before about Robert's stuff and I'll say it again amazing. Simply poo pooing amazing.
 
Wow that trailer is impressive. You guys are going to do well with this one! For 250K it just looks great and come on, it's got a monster - it's sellable! Have you got a deal already? Only fault I think may be some of the acting but overall it looks brilliant. I think digital looks a thousand times more filmic at night so shooting in the dark is going to add so much to the production value.

Congrats.
 
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