Sorry about bringing up this old post again, but we're actually getting close to shooting something and I have a couple more questions. Not a feature, but a short. Sort of a way to practice for the feature.
I'm pretty sure we're going to go Anamorphic/Photochemical finish.
One question I have is how necessary is the IP/IN? Wouldn't it be cheaper to do strike a print from the negative, especially if there's only going to be a couple (most likely one) prints? What would that restrict us from?
Also, since we're shooting on recans, is there a keycode issue?
Lastly, to avoid doing telecine twice, I'm thinking of scanning our negative at HD in a flat pass for the picture edit as well as our HD master, and then transcoding from there to other deliverables. Based on talking to a few places, the difference between the cost of an SD and HD telecine is not that much, plus we'd avoid the cost of print dailies. I imagine we could even do burned in timecode+keycode where the letterbox bars are and then just matte over them for the HD master.
Thank you for your time.
-Arthur