#Video to Film
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John,
Once animation is created on a computer, how do you get that signal to film? I
use to work at W. A. Palmer Films in San Francisco and worked with Bill's video
transfer camera and am also familiar with a system we had at Byrons Lab in
Washington, DC when I worked there.
But, in both cases, the quality of the transfers was limited by the video
signal. And in both cases, a film camera was aimed at a CRT.
You must be using a different kind of system. Is it some sort of scaning
directly onto the film?
Fred
We save RGB files to an exabyte tape and then take that to a film transfer
house. (They will inform you as to what file format/resolution they
require).
A common film size is 2048×1536, but we have produced work up to 2880×2048
(for cinemascope release). Some houses will also accept work at 1536×1024
or (yikes!) 1024×768.
JG
I've recently put in a bid for an IMAX project which would require a resolution
of 4096 x 3002. There was even some talk of going 48 frames per second. Talk
about alot of rendering…… later, Tony Butterfield,Planisphere Productions.
I think that would be the largest res rendered in LightWave! Hope you
have a lot of RAM, as you'll need 50megs just for the frame buffer itself!
Good Luck, I hope you get it…
JG
Fred there are Film Recorders available that will allow you to send your
Computer Ouytput to Film. Cineon is one of the nicest of hese units. They
are NOT inexpensive 🙂
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