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Post by markboulton on Aug 4, 2019 15:41:01 GMT
This is a very interesting development, given that the world's most forward-thinking Ultra HD digital video processing and production tools and equipment manufacturer has come up with this, having bought Cintel a few years ago... library.creativecow.net/article.php?author_folder=wall_kylee&article_folder=Blackmagic-Design-Film-Scanner&page=1The emphasis is on unlocking the potential of film and TV studios' archives and makes the idea of digging out old 'assets' more attractive - more powerful than the Sprint Datacine AND it captures in REAL TIME - quite a feat - and to make past vision storage formats seem cool to work with again, this might well help give a kick up any content owners who have been sitting laguidly on their decaying stacks of film cans, and help save from oblivion anything for which "there isn't the budget" to do HD slow-scan transfers of 16mm and 35mm archive film, but where it can be justified to digitize a "job" in not much more than the time it takes for the programme to be watched. |
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Post by Paul Vanezis on Aug 4, 2019 21:57:04 GMT
This is a very interesting development, given that the world's most forward-thinking Ultra HD digital video processing and production tools and equipment manufacturer has come up with this, having bought Cintel a few years ago... library.creativecow.net/article.php?author_folder=wall_kylee&article_folder=Blackmagic-Design-Film-Scanner&page=1The emphasis is on unlocking the potential of film and TV studios' archives and makes the idea of digging out old 'assets' more attractive - more powerful than the Sprint Datacine AND it captures in REAL TIME - quite a feat - and to make past vision storage formats seem cool to work with again, this might well help give a kick up any content owners who have been sitting laguidly on their decaying stacks of film cans, and help save from oblivion anything for which "there isn't the budget" to do HD slow-scan transfers of 16mm and 35mm archive film, but where it can be justified to digitize a "job" in not much more than the time it takes for the programme to be watched. Well, I have seen the results out of the latest iteration of these scanners and they can be pretty good. Sadly not great for shrunken film or A&B negs, or Ektachrome masters. But if your film is a single roll, with no splices, joins etc..., pristine negative rushes in fact, then it's a no-brainer. However, this is a VERY old article. The scanner they are talking about never really got off the starting block before they went back to the drawing board and revamped it. Paul |
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Post by Peter Stirling on Aug 4, 2019 23:42:00 GMT
Can't see it being much use to British Archive, I would assume all the well-known film programmes have been done now...and UK TV embraced videotape from the start as a drama medium possibly more than any other country in the world...even the US, so the majority of what's still left in the archives is probably on VT..and that now also scrubs up very well compared to the first attempts in the 1990s to transfer.
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Post by Paul Vanezis on Aug 5, 2019 7:42:42 GMT
Can't see it being much use to British Archive, I would assume all the well-known film programmes have been done now...and UK TV embraced videotape from the start as a drama medium possibly more than any other country in the world...even the US, so the majority of what's still left in the archives is probably on VT..and that now also scrubs up very well compared to the first attempts in the 1990s to transfer. Hmm. I wish I could agree with your assessment. |
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Post by Peter Stirling on Aug 5, 2019 9:50:24 GMT
]Hmm. I wish I could agree with your assessment. Well obviously you would know Paul, but you may agree that UK TV ran with VT from the start turning it from a time-shifting medium into an art form of it's own. Hence there are countless plays and things that still languish, decaying in the archives. |
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