claire_griffiths

Hi Nathan, Im afraid I can't do that as it is only visible really in moving images, you can't make it out from a still. We will finish by friday, it will just be not great quality images in the film, perhaps we can sort it out after spain properlly, I don't know! in answer to ur question b4-we are away from 5th aug-5th sep. Hope you are well. C x ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To all, Have decided to edit anyway and hand the film in with the artifacts/aliasing, if its just shown on a tv it could be ok, no time to sort this out as I am away for one month after friday and a month is too long an extention of the deadline! Personally I feel it is because it was a mini-dv transfer, it seems it is never as good as a digi-beta one. I have tried to do something in final cut about it, it has improved a little. Thanks for everyones comments that were helpful. C xx I am using a G4 with dual drive thingy (mirror doors version)! with final cut pro 5 to edit with, I feel it should be adiquate? i've never had this problem before when editing much larger amounts of footage together. The place i'm in: England, Brighton. The nearest places to use would be in London, I can't afford London prices, hence why I sent the film to america for telecine. The film is still there! Friday deadline because I am away visiting boyfriends family for one month in spain starting saturday, the original deadline was august 1st, The project the film is for will probablly all be completed by the time I get back so not really any chance of finishing it then. Good advice about the time code thingy, will do that thanks!

Sorry I meant I have just finished University, my student loan has ran out and I don't have a job, I used what little I had left to get this stuff telecined and now I have nothing! (need a job!)

Personally I do not think it is either camera but: My super-8 camera is a Nikon R10- but footage shot with it looks fine projected, it is new (to me) and was serviced just before bought and is guarenteed for 6 months. The camera I used to capture the mini-dv of telecined footage is a canon xm2-this hasn't been serviced since bouught years ago, but the dvd of files sent from the same company also has the aliasing/movement problem. Im afraid I don't have any time or the money to do this, have just finished uni! The films deadline is next friday! but thankyou for the advice

This is the blurb from their site, does this tell you what machine they used? (sorry first-timer, don't know much about the machines) I don't feel comfortable giving out the name of the place yet as I don't want to bad-mouth them if it is my fault (from my expectations being wrong). ******** has a remarkable proprietary Regular and Super 8mm 'WetSystem' telecine process which assures stunning results. ******** is proud to be the premiere Super 8mm Telecine transfer facility in the United States. Our outstanding results via DaVinci, Rank Turbo, and Wetgate are recognized by customers and labs throughout the world. We thank the Internet and our fellow Super 8mm users for making CinePost a Super8 Telecine transfer facility to the world. is that ANY HElp?

I've just had my first ever telecine service done, it was super-8 film three vision 2 films and one ektachrome, the first tape I got back from them (mini-dv) looked awful, it seemed as if it was all soft focus (perhaps because of the camera I captured with?) but the image really looked just like bad video! Like I had gone back and used some 80's home video camera to shoot with! I told them I was not happy with the condition of the image, and they sent another lot of telecined footage, this time as files on a dvd, I'm still not happy with the images, although the soft focus issue has gone there is still much aliasing and movement and funny coloured pixels in the darker areas of footage (not just the blacks) but nothing in the whites and again it looks allot like bad video. I have a friend who's telecined super-8 footage from the same place looked good to me. Whats going on? Do I have too high expectations of telecined super-8? is there anything I can do to make it look better (in final cut pro)? I'm not sure whether to ask for another one as I feel it could just be my expectations of telecine that are wrong! Any help/suggestions would be appreciated, Thanks, Claire x -cross posted to telecine section of this forum

I've just had my first ever telecine service done, it was super-8 film three vision 2 films and one ektachrome, the first tape I got back from them (mini-dv) looked awful, it seemed as if it was all soft focus (perhaps because of the camera I captured with?) but the image really looked just like bad video! Like I had gone back and used some 80's home video camera to shoot with! I told them I was not happy with the condition of the image, and they sent another lot of telecined footage, this time as files on a dvd, I'm still not happy with the images, although the soft focus issue has gone there is still much aliasing and movement and funny coloured pixels in the darker areas of footage (not just the blacks) but nothing in the whites and again it looks allot like bad video. I have a friend who's telecined super-8 footage from the same place looked good to me. Whats going on? Do I have too high expectations of telecined super-8? is there anything I can do to make it look better (in final cut pro)? I'm not sure whether to ask for another one as I feel it could just be my expectations of telecine that are wrong! Any help/suggestions would be appreciated, Thanks, Claire x -cross posted to super-8 section also