Re: Workflow - Phantom Cam & 35mm

Hi Gary. Thanks for your suggestions.

We're doing NTSC-24 offline because the creative team is more comfortable with an offline/online workflow when dealing with 35mm film - they'll inevitably want to see the entire 4x3 full gate frame, reposition & blow up, etc.

A few projects back, we did the dailies film transfer to SR 16-9, but when we wanted to reframe some shots, we didn't know what was in the top or bottom of the 35mm frame, and we had to retransfer anyway - and then rent the SR deck again, too.

We still shoot 35mm film and do this off/online workflow quite often, it's just the Phantom Cam footage that we're trying to figure out the best plan for.

Since it's just short format TV, we'll just get TIFFs, create QTs with frame burn-ins, and manually re-conform later, but if anyone knows why the AJA DPX translator didn't work with Color's DPX files, I'd love to hear about it.