Digital Intermediate for Indie Feature, ?The Passage?

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Digital Intermediate for Indie Feature, "The Passage"

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I hardly ever check this section, but thanks for the link. Yes, the story sounds interesting

-- I keep wondering why there is no "photography" channel on satellite!

DI is very common out here. Better yet is shooting HD to begin with. Ultimately both

systems can opt to have the digital output to 35mm film, or to stay on HD tape. With the

former, you have the whole film lab process to go through. I call it "two bites of the apple"

since you get color correction in DI and then color timing in the film world.

With the high end HD cameras (SONY HD CAM) , you can fairly easily reproduce the look of

film and even the film stock during production. It's a combination of glass and electronics

-- the menus are there to be finessed but very few camera crews know HOW to do that!

The Panavised Sonys and their attendant crews are NOT typically used to their fullest, so

Super 16 looks like an innovation!