[Konvas] buying a 2-perf camera. finally! or renting one forthe moment

[Camak, Lael (US - MGTTS)]

In 2 perf, you only save the money in film stock and processing (which
of course might amount to huge savings).  You don't save any money in
telecine.  I am always charged per hour of usage of the telecine suite.
2 perf or 4 perf or Vistavision has nothing to do with it unless they
charge me a specific setup fee for the telecine to accommodate
Vistavision or 2 perf.  It is not how many minutes of footage I am
telecining, it is how long am I using the telecine suite.  So, if I have
5 x 1000' reels to transfer, I know I have about 5 x 10 minutes of
footage or 50 minutes of footage to transfer.  I go to a great telecine
house where the colorist can set up each reel pretty fast, but I usually
am looking at 10-15 minutes each reel to set-up, and then an additional
10 minutes or actual telecining real-time the film to video.  So I walk
in with an estimate of say 25 minutes per reel, I got 5 reels, so I know
I'm in the suite for 2 hours at least.  
BUT, it depends on your material too.  If I have tons of short takes
with lighting changes then my setup time might go longer - maybe up to
30 minutes, then with the added 10 minutes of telecine, I'm looking at
40 minutes of suite time per reel.
Anyways, that is how I do it here in Atlanta at VTA.  Others may have
different parameters they have to work with.

Lael

-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of XiaoSu Han

so if i do telecine, is it the standard to use the minutes of the video
output as price reference? because we got a quote here and they
calculated the telecine costs based on the whole material footwise

so what would be the cheapest way of doing 4perf at the lab? with
telecine HD to hard disk i guess?



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