Neil B Sadwelkar

I don't think so. But why don't you contact them and get quote based on the option you need. My estimate is between Eur. 100k-200k depending on options. Johan Kihlgren is the person to contact. And he and the scanner are present at the IBC show in Amsterdam.

About a year ago, I bought a Golden Eye scanner for a post house that does restoration. They have used it for more than a year. It can scan 16mm or 35 mm, create Quicktime directly in a variety of codecs and has a capstan drive system so is gentle with film. And its 2k or 4k (or both), with options for keycode reader and sound optical reader. Check them out at www.imagesystems.se. If you're going to IBC, you can see the scanner in operation there and meet with the sales and tech team Neil Sadwelkar

I have a site on the basics www.sadwelkar.com/DI.htm Don't forget to use the PayPal button

Stay away from that LaCie. LaCie are terrible when things go bust. And these drives perform only average. Get an LTO-4 drive from Quantum or HP. Get a FC card from ATTO. And get BRU software for Mac. This works and will backup everything you currently need to LTO for long term safe-keeping. If you can't afford all this, find a post house in your region that has LTOs. Buy one or two 1-2 TB drives as 'transport drives'. Copy your data to these drives and take it to this place and have them write to LTO for you. I could offer you this service as well, but I'm in faraway India so shipping will be too costly for you. For more 'online' kind of storage that's safe as well as gives you access to your material, get XRAID from Active Storage. This is a storage company made by ex-Apple employees who made the XRAID for Apple while they were there. You'll get 16Tb for $ 10,000. But very safe storage. I have Apple XRAIDs for the past 5 years and haven't lost any data in them. ProMax also make great and safe storage. By the way what is the total size (in TB) of your data?

If all you need is a high quality encode with simple menus then Toast can do it too. And the new FCP7 with Compressor makes Blu-Ray directly from the timeline. You really don't need 'authoring'. You need a simple compiled Blu-ray disc.

And one more, really low-cost option. But its totally manual. If you need to do some light dust-busting on a FCP timeline ready to output to tape, then check out Rainer Standke's Too Much Too Soon FCP plug-ins. He has a great dust, hair and scratch removal that has saved me time many a times.

We've seen both Diamant and PFClean. Both are good. But ultimately you have to do a fair bit manually. If you set the auto-detect too aggressively you risk the system cleaning even legal image portions. So you set it mild and it cleans up most small dust specks. Then go over and take out the really big ones. A combination of both Forge from Foundry and PFClean (both work on Mac as well) is great especially as they can run on an existing FCP system so outputs can be instant.

This is an absolutely fabulous workflow. I have one question. What is the format of the LTO-4 (or LTO-3). Meaning what do you use to write it? I ask because what does a client need at his end (apart from an LTO-3/4 drive) in terms of software, to read the LTOs? If I have a MacPro with, say, BRU or some other software, can I read your LTOs?

I manage a basic site on film DI. The link is in my signature below.

We've done two movies shot on Varicam and output to film. For reasons of giving a look and/or integrating VFX, we passed the movie through a grading system and did a full grade on it. But if your HD master is fully corrected, then it can be output to film without a DI per se. Meaning if you're on a budget and don't want to grade it on a shot-by-shot basis, a 'straight transfer' is possible. In fact there's also a 24fps film recorder - Cinevator - that can play HD and record to film in real time!. What's more, you can go from HD to film print if you don't need many prints. That saves you the cost of intermediate stock. Neil Sadwelkar

You can do the same with a 24fps Quicktime in Apple Compressor. With careful application of settings you can get a 25fps Quicktime which has the same duration. The extra frame needed every second is cleanly generated. Neil Sadwelkar

I think everyone seems to have missed the point. The poster asked, for a film shot at 24fps, if the telecine was at 25fps, wouldn't it be fast? Answer is yes it would be 4% fast. If you capture that to FCP you need to 'conform' it to 24fps so it goes back to playing at the right speed and syncs with sound if any was recorded on a separate machine. The timeline you edit on is also 24fps. On an Avid, you capture 25fps from tape into a film project and Avid automatically converts that to 24fps and preserves the number of frames. Hence slows it down by 4% Here, in PAL film editing 24fps is TRUE 24fps not 23.98 as is used in NTSC countries. This is how we've been editing movies for over a decade now on NLEs. And hundreds of movies get edited exactly using this principle, in PAL countries. More on this '24-25 thing' in PAL film editing on my blog. Not sure I can add a link to that here, so Just Google 'The 24-25 issue in PAL film editing'

I think the Panasonic GH1 shoots 24fps. But if converting Canon 30fps to 25fps is what you want, doing the interpret footage thing in AE or conform in Cinematools is the way to go if speed - and dialogue sync - aren't an issue. Another possible workaround would be to use Compressor to convert to 24fps which comes out quite clean. Then CinemaTools to conform to 25fps. This will speed up thepicture (and sound) by 4% but that is not noticeable and most TV in PAL land do this to show 24fps film as 25fps video. Neil B Sadwelkar

I'm new to these forums and this is my first post hence I'm reacting to the "use your full name" thing. The poster above is called Srinivas Mamidi. And he has signed below his post as Srinivas Mamidi. Even his name shows up to the left of his post as Srinivas Mamidi. So where was he supposed to put his real name and didn't? From Neil B Sadwelkar This is my real name and I have a driver's licence and a passport to prove it.