Hi Rick,
I had exactly the same problem on a PAL based sequence a few months
back. I did the maths and came up with an answer. I then talked to the
people who were going to expose the video to film and asked them to
check my calculation. In the end my math was correct but I had to take
the cropping off before sending my video to them. I did make a test
frame though, visually showing my cropping.
I don't understand what you mean by that the 35 mm didn't look ok. You
allways have to make tests, comparing your video colour correction to
what the result on 35 mm film looks like. You then have to view this in
a good representative cinema. You also should make tests to select the
type and brand of film stock that best reproduces your clip. There are
numerous places in the video to film process where the end result will
be affected including an additional colour timing in the film
laboratory. The best for you would be to go through and learn to
understand this process in advance. Maybe most important though is to be
careful with white areas in the clip. White usually means that you look
straight at the empty projection screen - no details except for the
structure of the screen, and this maybe over a large area - ugly. Also
your starting point, 80% of an SD picture doesn't help the end result
and because of that you will have to work double as hard to achieve a
good enough result.
Good luck
Andi
Dsderanged(at)aol.com wrote:
Clients......I just love 'em.
Cut a :30 spot standard def for air. Tons of large images pan & scan
and some 35mm film. Mastered on Digibeta Standard Def 4:3.
Client wants to have their spot "Run in a Movie Theatre". Crazy.....I
know.
Anyway, the Encoding facility naturally prefers Hi Def Masters, but
will accept a Standard Def 4 : 3 Master with 16 : 9 mask 480i.
Exposing my ignorance here, but how can I be sure that I am creating
a true 16 : 9 Letterbox mask in DS. In Graphics, I typed the letter
"I" in a font that when sized to 525 fills my entire screen top to
bottom. If I tell it to be 480 size, will this relate to the mask size?
BTW, I did try to create a new sequence in 16 : 9 and although the
images looked OK, the standard 35mm film did not.
ANY suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Thanks....Rick at naked eye
a very wet Rick thanks to Hurricane Katrina !
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Andi Loor
www.andiloor.se
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