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Posted by Ken Maltby on 08/10/06 00:15
"Martin Heffels" <LJ7K3ZIFMS@EB84N91IPQQ78QCI6ZXASEA6B092LVRE9P.com> wrote
in message news:q96kd2520tu6pkjhfnpo28emnjebvkcua1@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:37:07 -0500, "Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Quite impressive with such a small crew! Well done.
>
> Thanks Ken!
>
> Yes, we tried to keep the crew as small as possible,
> in order to make it not look like a TVC-shoot ;-)
> Nah, just kidding. It was a low-budget shoot, and so
> we had to think about spending each Euro twice, so
> that led to a small, but very efficient working crew.
> And the lovely people of the Torino Film Commission
> helped us tremendously in getting good deals for
> gear, stock and lab & transfer.
> And the people at Lumiq Labs in Torino, were good
> enough to give us a 4:4:4 uncompressed transfer to SD
> of the 16mm-neg for the price of a mini-DV transfer
> (don't you just love it when it's the slow season? :-) )
> This kept the image quality up high. Some people even
> thought we shot at 35mm.
> Edit was done on Avid Xpress Pro 5, with a proxy
> of the DPX-files, and then the EDL used to manually
> recreate the edit of the DPX-files, which were then
> graded in Combustion 4 and rendered to an uncompressed
> Quicktime. DigiBeta and BetaSP dupes were drawn from
> this QT-file and also the DVD was rendered from it
> with CCE SP. Soundmix was done on DigiTools.
> The webversion was rendered with Canopus Procoder 2.
>
> We are quite surprised by the succes we have in the US.
> Italy doesn't seem to like it, but I guess they are
> looking for a different style of story-telling now.
> It's the same one of my filmmaking buddies in Aus had,
> and then all of a sudden he was nominated for an Oscar
> with his short film. Ahhhhh, keep on dreaming :-))
>
> cheers
>
> -martin-
> --
>
Thanks, for that tool listing. That must have been a big QT
File. While the Mini-DV die-hards might be disappointed, it
certainly shows what a good professional digital transfer and
some skill can accomplish using relatively common editing tools.
My hats off to whoever worked out that process.
Luck;
Ken
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