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Hey, I just had a question on what the usual steps are for when going into post with film? I have shot 16mm and gone through a standard def. telecine, we ended up editing with this footage and this was basically our final footage. I am asking what is the usual route for getting into post with film, say 35mm here. Would I be able to go through a hi-def telecine scan and have a pretty good image to use as the final image?

 

Nick

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That or true 2K scans (4K is almost never worth it in 16mm). There's also the quality issue of linear versus logarithmic scanning, where you can tweak and access higher quality color density if there is more severe exposure, color balance issues.

 

There are telecines/datacines, and scanners. The latter tends to be more expensive, but of a higher quality. Telecine, think of a film projector with an HD camera 1:1 copying the frame more or less steady in the gate. Scanners scan each frame. They tend to be slower, hence the higher price, but they produce a steadier image and much sharper frame quality.

 

 

I'm sure someone with more time can cover this in greater detail.

 

2K is 10% higher resolution than HD, roughly than 1080P (1980 lines across the width versus 2048 for 2K).

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@ K. Borowski:

 

Good day!

 

As I will have to scan my approx. 550ft of Vision3 (250) later this year and I used to

think 4k was just slightly below 16mm physical resolution of the 16mm neg.

Could you please explain a bit further why "... true 2K scans (4K is almost never worth it in 16mm)"

 

Thank you,

 

Phil

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4k scanning for a 16mm film is completely overkill at this point in time. Most editing programs still can't edit in 4k, and even national theaters are only starting to use 4k projection. 2k projection is a more common and easily editable format, but even for the purposes of a student film (which I'm assuming this is, due to it being posted in this forum), even 2k might be over the top. I've been blown away by the HD Super 16 transfers I've had done at National Boston.

 

But I may be wrong.

 

@ K. Borowski:

 

Good day!

 

As I will have to scan my approx. 550ft of Vision3 (250) later this year and I used to

think 4k was just slightly below 16mm physical resolution of the 16mm neg.

Could you please explain a bit further why "... true 2K scans (4K is almost never worth it in 16mm)"

 

Thank you,

 

Phil

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