Digital Drops the Ball...

[Alex]

Wow, I sure feel validated about my gripes about digital. I think Digital is great, but it's a sleazy technology because it can be watered down, diluted and in the process create false trails of evidence.

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[Chezdigtlstudio]

Originally posted by Alex:
Wow, I sure feel validated about my gripes about digital. I think Digital is great, but it's a sleazy technology because it can be watered down, diluted and in the process create false trails of evidence.

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<font size="2" face="verdana, sans-serif">Hey, what's shakin'

Super8 in the digital age, what an exciting forum! I love digital editing- (even though I wouldn't touch a digital camera with a 300 foot pole) you can edit, add your own sound and produce DVD's without having to do all that slpicing. Isn't it great? All I have to do is pay for film, developing & MiniDV transfer. Sweet.

But when it comes time for the film festival showing, they have to use a digital projector, right? I've seen a few DV movies projected on the big screen and in all honestly, it just looks like c r a p! We're talking major pixelation, candy cane lines around edges, and even intermitant color noise. Horrible! I wonder if it would look that way with a digitally editied Super 8mm movie. ???

I asked a film professional once if I could have my edited Super8 movie trasferred (blown up) from MiniDV or DVD to 35mm for play at theatres. He laughed and asked me what I thought would happen to an image that started out the size of a pencil eraser if it were blown up thousands of times. Needless to say I didn't inquire about it any further. But he did mention something called "digi-Beta", saying that if I shot in at least 16mm and editied on this Digi-Beta, that the computer output could then be transferred to 35mm with a minnimal loss of quality.

But I wanna do super8! Isn't there a way?

[Alex]

Hey there chez.

Yeah, Super-8 transferred to high quality video should look fine digitally projected.

The flicker film festival in Los Angeles holds an annual Super-8 festival. The Super-8 films are transferred to BetaCam SP and projected onto a huge screen in front of 550 people.

If your super-8 footage looks good to begin with, it will look acceptable digitally projected onto a big screen. The Super-8 frame may be small, but a mini-dv "frame" or even a BetaCam Sp frame is not exactly huge either.

[Chezdigtlstudio]

Cool, thanks for replying.

I just wanted to ask about the Flicker Film Festival. I've never submitted any of my stuff to a festival before, but that is my dream! YOu know I'm working on a short film right now and when I'm done I want to be part of a flicker festival. But what format do they accept, I mean I normally burn my movie on a DVD once I'm done editing it- do they take movies in that format?

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[Alex]

I'm no expert on this but normally they project film however they also accept films that have been transferred to either VHS or DVD.

I would "assume" that DVD is preferred.