Film Recording
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There are quite a few film recording services around. Check some of the trade
mags like POST, Producer, or Film & Video. Most are located in Los Angeles. I
just found one in Canada that's cheaper, though, and their sample film looked
quite good, but I'm not a REAL expert in that field. Let me know if you want
more details.
John Tissavary (LUNA cie)
Please let me know about the Canadian film recording service — I live in
Vancouver, B.C. I'm most interested in analog recorders, not super high res
SGI stuff. In fact I'm wondering about buying one of those, but no idea of the
cost.
(Especially something that can record from flics, rather than series of gifs,
tgas, etc.) Thanks a lot for the response — yours is the first knowledgeable
response I have received after many forum queries several months ago.
I think we've crossed our wires here, Stephen. Film recording I'm talking
about is for doing super hi-res work. I was talking about rendering to 2k
pixels per frame and sending it to a service bureau to put on 35mm movie film.
Definitley not cheap, definitely not simple, and definitely not real-time
(maybe with a few Crays <g>). For getting flics to video tape cheaply, your
best choice is a scan converter that can hook up to your VGA card via some sort
of pass through connector. These things cost less than $500, typically. I've
never used one, so I can't say much else about it.
John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
I can't tell what the source of the confusion is, but I was not talking about
video output, which I already do. Also, video transfered to film is limited to
about 300 lines. I want to do 1024 by 768 pixels per frame, which would be a
total of 786K pixels per frame — so I also don't know what you mean when you
say "super hi-res" at "2k pixels per frame". I was also not talking about real
time. Perhaps you would like to clear up the confusion. (I'm looking to 16 mm
film output because its already higher res than the computer frame, so 35 mm is
unnecessary).