Transfer for inverted footage - ???

[Dennis Chesny]

I have multiple rolls of film that I know will need to be turned upside down (due to the camera having been inverted during the shoot). Should I ask to have the images inverted during the transfer? Are there cost or work flow issues?

Thank you, and I apologize if this is a back-to-basics question!

 

Dennis

[Brad Grimmett]

I can't comment directly on prices, but this is a very common thing. I often do low mode with the camera inverted (especially with HD) since it's a much quicker changeover than pulling the camera off the sled and re-mounting to a low mode bracket and re-balancing. It's very rare that anyone has a problem with this (including producers), which leads me to believe that it either doesn't cost any extra, or that the cost is negligible.

[Sam Wells]

I've done this in supervised telecine, pretty easy - I shouldn't think there's a cost factor.

 

Hopefully all your 180 rotations are on separate rolls if this is an unsupervised dailies transfer.

 

Of course you can do this later in post, although it's a render.

 

-Sam