Re: 35mm > HDCAM > FCP ?

Hey Tom,

All the questions that you are asking has previously been answered in other posts - so use the search function...

You will find that: "The Producer also intents to pitch the film to various networks." & "the client is working under considerable budget constraints and we may have to be content with internal monitoring." doesn't really belong together.

Normally Producers takes off-line to the market-place and in that way raises money for the OnLine. Or he/she finds some unsuspecting editor who is willing to work flat out for no money on a under-specc'd system with no reward(s) at the end of the tunnel - except a credit on a product that no-one wants to buy. Obviously there is the random rare exception to my point - but they are very rare.

If you want to work at full HD; expect on a feature length project to buy a complete new FCP system. You can use a variety of codecs to play around with and some of them are very good, but you still need some decent storage to do the business - which is IMHO the main cost of upgrading to full HD. Get your producer to dig deeper - don't do a job of that magnitude on a low-pay, unless you are into that kind of torture? ;-)



All the Best
Mads
London, UK

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