[Noisebridge-discuss] Projection format

[Patrick Keys]

Got it backwards, TeeTrizZz.
No compelling benefit to converting to film if the source is already 
digital (dvd).
Film's wonderful benefit is great color saturation, but if your source 
was digital then you don't really get that by converting to film.
Modern video projectors, and certainly any independent film festival, 
will be able to play the dvd directly.
Save your money and just send the dvd.
Flash thumb drive upon which you've copied the entire contents of the 
DVD might also be good.
DVD's get corrupted or the film festival might not have a computer with 
a DVD drive, which is increasingly common.
Another money-saving option is converting the dvd to a video file and 
emailing/uploading it to the film festival, but that would degrade the 
video quality by compression.
Corruption and degradation can be fun, but not when it comes to video.


Patrick



On 11/30/2010 1:03 PM, Sean Cusack wrote:
> 35mm is almost certainly the most expensive since you'll probably have
> to buy a full on 400' roll (~$300 from B&H right now).
>
> Digibeta and Betacam are pretty commonly used in TV production stuff
> (from my experience as being a tech director on 1 closed circuit TV
> station), so you may get lucky and one of the independent TV stations in
> the city may have the equipment to do this for you on the cheap.
> Additionally, the physical media should be cheaper than the other options.
>
> Digibeta raw media runs from $15 - $60 depending on runtime (cheapest =
> shortest = 12min.)
> Betacam-SP raw media runs from $15 - $35 depending on runtime (cheapest
> = shortest = 15min.)
>
> The only tricky part will be the PAL thing. If a local studio has the
> beta equipment, they may only have it in NTSC. But, it won't hurt to ask
> (and a lot of the fancy pro stuff has a little lever you can switch to
> do either scan mode anyways).
>
> Sean
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:51 PM, TeeTrizZz <info at leyenhaft.de
> <mailto:info at leyenhaft.de>> wrote:
>
>     I want to send one of my films to a film festival. The chance to
>     survive the
>     first round equals zero. However, I want to try my luck.
>
>     I have to choose one of the following projection formats. What do
>     you think
>     would be the best/cheapest/easiest format when I send my DVD to a
>     company
>     for transfering the movie? Or maybe one of has such a system?
>
>     - 35 mm
>     - Digibeta PAL
>     - Betacam-SP PAL
>     - DCP (JPEG 2000)
>     - HDCAM PAL (no SR)
>
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