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Telecine Advice Needed


Guest James Westbrook

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I'm shooting my first 16mm project in a couple of months.

 

 

What advantage is there in adjusting and tweaking your footage during Telecine rather than doing it in post with Final Cut Pro or AE for example?

 

Is the reason because you have the full latitude of the neg to adjust and play with, where as with video (especially dvcam) the latitude isn’t, as great and too much tweaking will reduce the quality?

 

The reason I ask is because I dont think I can afford a "best light" telecine.

 

Many Thanks Guys

 

James Westbrook

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It sort of depends on how extreme your corrections are going to be. Off of the negative in the telecine, pre-compression to DV, you have more information to work with plus you have the power of a DaVinci (or whatever) color-corrector plus a trained colorist.

 

Working from a DVCAM recording, you're now dealing with a highly compressed recording with limited color sampling, but if the corrections are minor, you should be OK.

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