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Harry Clegg

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  1. Hi everyone I've got a small amount of Ektachrome stock (16mm and super 8) which I'd like to have cross processed in C-41 chemicals. Here in the UK labs seem reluctant to do cross processing. Anyone know of a lab in the States (or elsewhere) that does this kind of work? Thanks Harry
  2. Thanks for your replies. I would have come back to you before but for some reason I don't always receive notifications of postings. The transfer went straight to disc and there was no tape involved. I'm a bit confused about the whole interlaced aspect but I don't think it's crucial to the problem. Final Cut allows me to deinterlace the footage and there's a difference in the way it looks afterwards but the problem persists deinterlaced or not. There shouldn't be any pulldown because I shot at 25fps and since I'm in PAL territory this is the speed at which I want to play back. I'm going to ask him to send me the footage as an image sequence, as suggested, though I assume this will mean uncompressed, ie very large file sizes. Do you think it's worth asking him to put the footage onto a tape?
  3. I recently had some 16mm film transferred to DVCPRO HD in Mexico City and brought back the clips in a hard disk drive. The transfer appeared to go well but when I reviewed the clips every second or so there's a slight jump which becomes very noticeable on movement. Playing back the deinterlaced footage frame by frame I discovered that ever 18-20 frames there were several double frames, ie two frames of video contained just one film frame. Interlaced, the footage runs somewhat more smoothly but with a loss of resolution. The guy who did the transfer claims that the material was captured correctly and keeps sending me clips in different codecs to see if this solves the problem. So far nothing has worked. I haven't had much prior experience with professional telecine. Is this kind of problem common? Does the material need to be transferred once more?
  4. Thanks for that. In the end I used a company called Digital Sprockets. They charged me around $600 to transfer 1,200' of negative to DVCPRO HD, best light with DaVinci cololour correction. However, the footage jumps a little on movement so I'm not entirely happy.
  5. Hi, I wonder if anyone can recommend somewhere in Mexico City to get my 16mm rushes telecined?
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