HD workflow note for music videos or short short films:
Videocraft rent CineAlta's for $1700 a day for a 'production kit' consisting of HWDF900 head, HDVF20 viewfinder, a Canon 8-128 HD lens, batteries, mattebox, and a 20+ HD tripod (a very nice heavy duty tripod). They also do 'three day weekends'. You pickup the camera on Friday and return it by noon on Monday abnd you only pay for ONE DAY. So you're effectively paying $560 a day for a HD camera. Nice.
They're also getting in a new J-Series player which plays back HDCAM. It features DV-out via firewire and does on-the-fly downconversion. It should rent for $500, which is around the same as a 1200A ProHD deck.
So, shoot on the CineAlta at a price-point which is CHEAPER than the Varicam (which is $1200 a day for the head only) and you capture a DV-OFFLINE via the deck. You do your edit in beautifully transcoded DV on your stock standard FCP HD/Express suite. You then go to Videocraft recapture off the HDCAM master tapes for an uncompressed HD 4:2:2 finish using an Avid Adrenaline (RT HD). Its around $700 for the dry hire.
All up, that should cost you $2900 for an uncompressed HD finish (excluding stock) A little more expensive, overall, than the Varicam but the quality would be superior in some ways. That said, Lemac did us the Varicam + Deck for $2000 for two-days. Always push for deals.
But at $2900, you could consider Super-16mm or, if you're really crazy, 2-perf 35mm aka Techniscope. Actually, its not that crazy, there are plenty of Australian MV's shot in 2-perf.
[film geek note, American Graffiti, THX-1138, all but a few of Sergio Leone's movies were all shot in 2-perf, and Goddard used 2-perf whenever he did 2.35]
They're also getting in a new J-Series player which plays back HDCAM. It features DV-out via firewire and does on-the-fly downconversion. It should rent for $500, which is around the same as a 1200A ProHD deck.
So, shoot on the CineAlta at a price-point which is CHEAPER than the Varicam (which is $1200 a day for the head only) and you capture a DV-OFFLINE via the deck. You do your edit in beautifully transcoded DV on your stock standard FCP HD/Express suite. You then go to Videocraft recapture off the HDCAM master tapes for an uncompressed HD 4:2:2 finish using an Avid Adrenaline (RT HD). Its around $700 for the dry hire.
All up, that should cost you $2900 for an uncompressed HD finish (excluding stock) A little more expensive, overall, than the Varicam but the quality would be superior in some ways. That said, Lemac did us the Varicam + Deck for $2000 for two-days. Always push for deals.
But at $2900, you could consider Super-16mm or, if you're really crazy, 2-perf 35mm aka Techniscope. Actually, its not that crazy, there are plenty of Australian MV's shot in 2-perf.
[film geek note, American Graffiti, THX-1138, all but a few of Sergio Leone's movies were all shot in 2-perf, and Goddard used 2-perf whenever he did 2.35]
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