HDV so lo res, when do I get one of these!

epirb wrote on 11/16/2004, 2:27 PM

Well ok it's not really a camera, but imagine digital video images with 4096 lines of horizontal resolution.
was reading THIS article in my copy of Sound and Vision Mag about film to digital transfers the other day.

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BJ_M wrote on 11/16/2004, 2:42 PM

weird -- nothing new there, we have been scanning our films for many many years at 4k (and higher since much of our source is 70mm)....

4k film scans are very common in the industry ... got DLT 's and hard drives and raids full of them -- a .cin 16bit 6k resolution image is a BIG file let me tell you .. scanning is very expensive still -- I don't know if they go into numbers in that article, but let me tell you it is not for the faint of heart compared to telecine at 480p or even telecine to HD (both of which are downright cheap comparatively speaking) ..

i posted here once a link to a few frames of our 6k scans - converted to jpeg, but still non the less, pretty amaizing detail ..

can't wait till vegas can handle better than 2k scans .. and better than 8bit color ..

epirb wrote on 11/16/2004, 3:22 PM

He said he had something like 600( !) dual processor mac g5's and something like a 378 terrabyte network.

Santa? PLeeeeeease?!!!! can you put that in my stocking?

Cant wait for the newly mastered ,Bond........James Bond films to come out.

BJ_M wrote on 11/16/2004, 3:53 PM

well you end up rapidly looking like the below disk space report on my primary system as of right now .... several of these are local and non local raids of course ... that is somewhere over 30 drives connected up for everyday use .. and i'm just one guy here ...

[L] 230-| Drive:C:\ Total [32.03 GB] Free [14.77 GB]
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[L] 230-| Drive:N:\ Total [372.62 GB] Free [60.99 GB]
[L] 230-| Drive:P:\ Total [34.18 GB] Free [26.30 GB]
[L] 230-| Drive:Q:\ Total [223.58 GB] Free [27.68 GB]
[L] 230-| Drive:R:\ Total [372.62 GB] Free [19.46 GB]
[L] 230-| Drive:X:\ Total [1117.86 GB] Free [785.85 GB]
[L] 230-| Drive:Z:\ Total [1117.86 GB] Free [401.50 GB]