I've been extremely interested ever since i saw the Blackmagic-Design.com home page announce the new Cintel acquisition. http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/p ... seID=31407
Since I own an Arri 435es camera system and have worked with film for years, the bottleneck of the telecine/scan in the post chain really puts film out of the budget range of many filmmakers who would rather shoot film for their projects but can't afford to. For example, just last week i processed 400ft of film through Deluxe Hollywood as a test. They were kind enough to process the neg for free since it was only a test but the 2K Log scans cost $980.00 with a hard drive i supplied and not including shipping costs. And that's only 4.5 minutes of footage. Doing Telecine - Scan via EDL's is also going to be extremely cumbersome and expensive because those costs double in the conform process when they have to pull all your selects from your EDL's = more time = more money.
I also happen to own a small post-production color house in northern california and unfortunately can't justify owning a scanner at the current market rates $100k+. But, i could justify it and sell scanning, camera package etc as a combined service if the scanners were small post house budget friendly (hint, hint, wink, wink). I'd love to see BMD do with this what they did with DaVinci Resolve, ie take a $100k product and make it affordable for the masses. Desktop scanning if you will. They already own Resolve and could use Resolve as the input software for digitizing the media from the scanner via one of their already existing capture cards.
I'd love to hear others thoughts on this as well. But please, lets not make this a film vs digital discussion, just a friendly conversation about the new Cintel product to come and our imaginative speculations at play.
Since I own an Arri 435es camera system and have worked with film for years, the bottleneck of the telecine/scan in the post chain really puts film out of the budget range of many filmmakers who would rather shoot film for their projects but can't afford to. For example, just last week i processed 400ft of film through Deluxe Hollywood as a test. They were kind enough to process the neg for free since it was only a test but the 2K Log scans cost $980.00 with a hard drive i supplied and not including shipping costs. And that's only 4.5 minutes of footage. Doing Telecine - Scan via EDL's is also going to be extremely cumbersome and expensive because those costs double in the conform process when they have to pull all your selects from your EDL's = more time = more money.
I also happen to own a small post-production color house in northern california and unfortunately can't justify owning a scanner at the current market rates $100k+. But, i could justify it and sell scanning, camera package etc as a combined service if the scanners were small post house budget friendly (hint, hint, wink, wink). I'd love to see BMD do with this what they did with DaVinci Resolve, ie take a $100k product and make it affordable for the masses. Desktop scanning if you will. They already own Resolve and could use Resolve as the input software for digitizing the media from the scanner via one of their already existing capture cards.
I'd love to hear others thoughts on this as well. But please, lets not make this a film vs digital discussion, just a friendly conversation about the new Cintel product to come and our imaginative speculations at play.
Mike Burton
Pretty Moving Pictures, LLC
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Pretty Moving Pictures, LLC
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