[Tig] how to prepare HD for transfer to film

[Bob Friesenhahn]

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On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Bojan Mastilovic wrote:
> We sent it to other facility which does the film printing (they have the
> lasergraphic producer + film printer). The person from the lab called me and
> said that picture looked a little bright and is it on purpose. I thought
> that he is speaking about the blacks above the zero line so I said tht it is
> intended to be that way. Through their printed negative the test went to
> processing to the lab, to be developed and positive was to be made.
> The DOP have ordered to the film printing facility and the film lab not to
> make any adjustments to film itself,  just to print it and develop it as it
> is.
> Today we had a screening, and what a disappointment it was!
> The colors were dull, the contrast was low, it was a pale copy of what we
> had seen in monitor in our studio.

It sounds like the images may have been treated like they were log 
encoded rather than Rec.709 (HD) encoded.  ARRIlaser knows how to 
print Rec.709 material.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

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