XiaoSu Han Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 hi, last month we shot a short film on 35mm and had it HD telecine'd to HDCAM SR tapes at the shaw brothers studios now i see a strange flicker in the footage, is that normal or should we go complain? http://dedicated13.nessus.at/test.mov thanks for any experience on that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Stephen Williams Posted September 4, 2008 Premium Member Share Posted September 4, 2008 hi, last month we shot a short film on 35mm and had it HD telecine'd to HDCAM SR tapes at the shaw brothers studios now i see a strange flicker in the footage, is that normal or should we go complain? http://dedicated13.nessus.at/test.mov thanks for any experience on that Hi, It's very compressed so it's difficult to say, out of interest what was the camera? Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XiaoSu Han Posted September 4, 2008 Author Share Posted September 4, 2008 hi stephen yeah that was quite stupid, i thought it was enough, here's a proper clip: http://dedicated13.nessus.at/testmore.mov hope that anyone knows what this is about and how we could resolve it... could it be that the transfer was made in 24 psf but should be 23.98 PsF ?? to answer your question, we used a moviecam compact with zeiss highspeed lenses on fuji eterna 250d for this scene... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Paul Bruening Posted September 4, 2008 Premium Member Share Posted September 4, 2008 Hey Xiao, I see what you are saying. It not only flickers slightly. It seems to have a slightly darker, horizontal bar that rolls through the middle of the image. I've never seen that before. The roll implies some kind of cyclic mismatch. But, whether that is in the scan or camera... I'm not much help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Stephen Williams Posted September 4, 2008 Premium Member Share Posted September 4, 2008 Hi, Probably the Transfer, it could be a slight fogging, do you know how the film was stored or if it's been Xrayed? Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XiaoSu Han Posted September 4, 2008 Author Share Posted September 4, 2008 hi stephen i also checked that because we brought film on the plane (but didnt let it pass through the xray machines), but it's also on the fresh rolls we bought there. so im not sure what it could be, what kind of camera malfunction could this be? i really dont think it was the lab because it's a veryy well reputated lab where johnny to gets his films developed sacnned and colored for example so i am going to have a look at the tape probably and see if its on there as well, but i almost dont think so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XiaoSu Han Posted September 4, 2008 Author Share Posted September 4, 2008 thanks paul for your ideas i will have to call the lab again probably and ask if it's on the negative, although it shouldn't be as we saw dailies and the flashing wasnt there i just can't believe that they are using a broken machine and then also giving it to us like this the stupid thing is that neither we nor the directors are in hong kong anymore so that's quite unfortunate.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saul Rodgar Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 (edited) thanks paul for your ideas i will have to call the lab again probably and ask if it's on the negative, although it shouldn't be as we saw dailies and the flashing wasnt there i just can't believe that they are using a broken machine and then also giving it to us like this the stupid thing is that neither we nor the directors are in hong kong anymore so that's quite unfortunate.. Yeah, I think it's not on the neg. It looks like electronic interference to me. Definitely video looking. Talk to the telecine folks. Edited September 4, 2008 by Saul Rodgar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BANNED Patrick Tong Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 the footage shoot at 24fps with 172.8 shutter angle ? Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XiaoSu Han Posted September 5, 2008 Author Share Posted September 5, 2008 the footage shoot at 24fps with 172.8 shutter angle ? Pat Yes, definately. we also shot footage at 12 fps and 32 fps and it's on it as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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