[Konvas] film out ... dslr . Nobody cares about this??? Strange!

[colcam at aim.com]

 In early December I had a request for a meeting from a young man who hates me.  

And I mean hates--  I say things and people listen to me instead of him, and he knows better.

He finally finished shooting "his feature" in another state, a 30:1 saved capture 1920x1080/60i ninety minute feature.  

Two editors quit because they could not make heads or tails of the footage, and there was no way to reconcile it to the screenplay. 

He and a couple of others edited it and wound up doing a few reshoots.

Fourteen months worth of reshoots.

They finally got a rough cut.  They merely needed a bit of fine tuning, color, density, pegging exposure values.  Little stuff.

There were some issues with sound, but he felt they could live with that.

They went to five labs.

The estimate range was 1.9 to 2.1 million dollars to make it a solid 91 minute image to industry standards.

No film out, no theatrical version, just the minimum required for the new HD standards for the networks, major cable players, distributors of home video.

He wanted me to come up with magic so he could distribute it and prove he was a genius.

His credit card was declined and I wound paying for the coffee.





 


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Taylor <taylorcobmw at yahoo.com>


Can't wait to see your tests, Olivier.
 
Steve, isn't 16mm already dead? No need to wait for Scarlet. Very nice gear is 
being dumped for a pittance these days. Even though I believe that 16mm is still 
a very viable capture medium, even from a budget standpoint. Colcam's points are 
still true. I hear so much about the digital post costs that people seem to 
forget about... until they have to pay for them. I'm sure its maturing, but 
moving and processing all that data is still not free. 
 
There is so much excitement about digital capture and the idea that once you 
turn the camera on you're shooting for "free". I don't think that's going to 
change. It is an ingrained mindset with most film students these days, and many 
"film" programs don't have any film in them. The Advanced Cinematography 
instructor at the Cinema program at LACC told me a year ago they were done with 
film and would only teach digital (and this in a town with more film use than 
anywhere else i can think of). That was a response to lack of interest in 
actual film from the students.
 
Bruce Taylor
 

--- On Tue, 1/12/10, olivier auverlau <firefly at uio.satnet.net> wrote:




will do it in 3 weeks , part of my "BLOW UP" reel ... will inclued shots of 7D , 
and 5D ...transfered by may way of digital to film ...
will inclued , HDV, VARICAM,P2,Xdcam,and others HD and no HD formats ....

Olivier .