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

[t byrne]

Ditto that: as far as I can see, you only save money on stock and 
processing.  If you're buying new stock, it could be significant, but if 
you're a bottom-feeder like many of us, the saving isn't such a big 
deal.  I'd be suspicious of a transfer house that charged per foot--I'd 
rather think that my transfer was being handled with a bit more creative 
attention than that.  A mediocre colorist can do a lot of harm.

Terry Byrne

Camak, Lael (US - MGTTS) wrote:

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