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Topic: More difficult without filmstock
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Winbert Hutahaean
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Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted January 23, 2015 05:59 PM
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...we are facing here, as the film are no longer filmstock and are sealed in the temporarily closed cinema.
Dominique, I don't understand when you are saying above. Can you explain what the situation is?
Anyway, digital may simplify the things that used to be complicated, but definetly it will not be cheaper.
If we are talking on industrial size, this relates to monopoly system where the software owner may charge whatever fee/cost they want. It is strated from the so called "free asssistance" from the software owner until we inevest on hardware that is only suitable with that software and ....booomm...we get shocked to know the software price is not cheap.
My office, in 2008, was approached by the biggest computer software/hardware ever (you know it of course), and was given that "free" assistance. Now all computers in my office using the software from this company. When we are going to set up a tele converence system that we can actually use skype for free, we have to buy from this company $10,000 for one directorate in my office and we have 50s directorates!!
The same thing we have in digital cinema, it needs hardware and software that follows certain standard from several different companies. This will create high cost to run the cinema because the software isssue.
In analog cinema, you can buy projector from China if you want cheaper cost without getting bothered witht the software as long as the studio send you the 35mm film.
Cheers,
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Winbert
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted January 24, 2015 01:21 PM
This is not entirely related, but partially ...
When I was doing the restoration on my VHSC footage for the final cut of "Pink Bison" (still being edited, shot by shot, grrrr), I found that one of the four original tapes just could not be viewed or archived, due to an inescapable "jitter" to the image, no matter what I did (tape video out of cartridge, putting into a full size cartridge, ect. If I want that last cartridge to actually be restored, I'll have to send it to some true professional, just to get that footage back!)
... but in this case, it was digital to the rescue!
I had miraculously saved all of the original DVD copies made from the tapes right after shooting and by putting them in our Blu-ray player, we were actually able to see that DVD footage better than when we originally used it, (I think it's something called up-converting to 1080p or something like that, it's something that those modern DVD players were doing a few years back).
So, in this case, for some of that footage digital actually came to the rescue, and those home made DVD's were 11 years old to boot!
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Adrian Winchester
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From: Croydon, London, UK
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted January 24, 2015 11:08 PM
The comment by the Belgian journalist makes no sense to me. If the films are sealed in the cinema, another cinema would need to get DCPs, or other digital formats from elsewhere. If there's a lack of such copies, that's a problem, but if the films had been on film, that's no guarantee that there would have been other readily available 35mm prints, either. About 4 years ago, I went to a London Film Festival screening that was cancelled because of a damaged 35mm print.
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Adrian Winchester
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