video transfer for big screen

[eidde]

hello

just thought Id add my experiences here.
I recently showed a transferred version of my film in a theatre.
We did the transfer the old fashioned way, projecting onto a screen, and filming with a miniDV camera (fancy Sony - prosumer camera).
I set the projector speed to reduce flicker as much as possible.
When we showed the miniDV tape, the image was perfect. I could never afford a super8 projector that could create such a big image, and bright enough for a 200 seater theatre. The quality different was unnoticable (for the audience anyway ;-) )
May have helped it was in black and white.

Cheers

[oldasdirt]

I don't know what kind of projectors they have in theaters, but I would guess that most of them have a 35mm, 16mm and also somekind of videoprojector

Don't know about Helsink or Buenos Aries,but all of the theaters in my neck of the woods (Jacksonville,Fl.USA) are all 35mm platter system type.

[dudewas]

thanks for all this experience,

the 2 transfers, one DigiBeta plus one dub MiniDV, sounds quite good. But now I have to find such a producer to put up the money !!

I'm around Montreal, i was told that the nearest real telecine for super 8 facilities (flicker,etc) is in Toronto.
Does someone know a place there ?

wassili