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Kisses And Caroms Discussion Board: DVX to Film or HD?

Corey Morris	Monday, July 28, 2003 - 06:42 pm I'm a member of indieclub and a fellow indie director. I have read your guys k&c journals and find them intersting since your basically going through the same stuff as me. Anyways on to my point. I noticed that you are shooting with a dvx100. I own one myself and its a wounderful camera but I noticed that you plan to shoot on the dvx100 and then transfer to film. I'm sure your familiar with the huge cost of film transfer and so I wanted to give you alittle of my humble advice before you lay down several thousand dollars on a film transfer. Thier is a much cheaper option to film transfer. Sundance and most of the other big festivals are now allowing High Definition tape entrys in addition to just film. What this means is that instead of film transfer, you can take your dv tape to a dub-house and have them do a upscale to HD 1080i for about $500. If thier are other reasons that you wish to transfer to film then this information is probably useless to you, but I just thought it might help if you were just doing the festival circuit. Anyways, good luck with your project. Corey Morris BlackBird Films
Vince (Vince)	Monday, July 28, 2003 - 06:43 pm What and where is indieclub? Do you mean http://indieclub.com/? Is that a good site? Is it helpful? Yes, I am familiar with the cost of film transfer. DVfilm will do it for $22500.00 for the first print, $3600.00 each additional. I am aware that More and More festivals are accepting and projecting video. But here lies the problem. When you show on video, Acquisitions Executives know how cheep it is and will buy your product accordingly. When you show on film, you will get a much larger deal. It's very hard to get an Acq Exe to agree to a theatrical distribution when the only way they've seen it, is on video. This is why no projected video has ever gotten a theater distribution. Blair Witch was shown on film. When we get accepted to Sundance, I will spend the $22500.00 because It's a guarantee that we'll make it back. What are you working on? Do you have a site?
Corey Morris	Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 08:38 am I just realized that I probably got linked to this site from 2-pop and not indieclud.com sorry for the confusion. Yes, indieclud is a great site but 2-pop is alot more informative. Right now I'm casting for a short film that I have just finished story boarding. Anyways, back to the topic of discussion. If you have the 22500.00 to spend on a film transfer I think thats great. Its completely out of my range to lay down that much money before being picked up for distribution (something like 1 in a 100 indiefilms ever get distribution). But if you really believe in the project and you have the money then best of luck. I just keep thinking for 22,500 you could purchase 2 dvx100, a g5 editing system with FCP4 and a great lighting system and then you could shoot movies for the rest of your life at low to no cost. Once again gook luck with your project and I hope everything goes well. Corey
corey morris	Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 10:12 am After rereading your post I think thier was alittle confusion. I thought you were going to transfer to film before you had been picked as a finalist at sundance. I agree that if your picked as a finalist at sundance or one of the big festivals that you should transfer to film. because thier is a very good chance you will get distribution but I would not transfer to film before being accepted. It would just be to risky.