[Tig] How to do the SD to Film?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Leo Liao wrote:
>
> We have a SD PAL 25Frame/S tape for commercial, and we want to shoot it on
> 35mm film by our ARRILaser, what is the best way to do this? We have
> Autodesk Smoke, Lustre, Flame, Shake, and Final Cut Pro. Here is our plan:
>
> 1, Capture the SD tape into 720x576 .dpx or .cin files by Somke or Flame,
> enlarge it to a resolution which is best for the film.
> 2, Convert it into RGB 10bit log space by Shake or other applications
> 3, Shoot it by Arrilaser
> Is there any problem in our plan?

I would first investigate to see what sort of post-processing you 
really need/want to do to your images as well as what the capabilities 
of Arrilaser are.  You may be able to go directly from your SD files 
and image them directly (with scaling and adjustments within the 
ArriLaser) using the Arrilaser.

Regardless, capturing the SD tape to 720x576 YCbCr DPX is a good idea 
for a starting point.  Processing low-grade images at a higher 
resolution often does more harm than good (and requires more 
resources) so you need to take care.

Bob
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