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Response to Cannon XL1 Filming Options

from Johnny Rhinobaucherocerous (johnnyrhinobaucherocerous@usa.net)
I thought I'd add this to Brian Meade's thoughts since he obviously doesn't know what the ---- he's talking about:

I recently attended an IFP West seminar where they projected the VX1000, the XL1, High 8, and HDTV transferred to 35mm. The results were fairly stunning to say the least. The VX1000 had the most noticicable artifacting, however, I don't believe it was shot with the idea of transfer in mind. The XL1 looked awesome. However, it is very un-wise to shoot in frame mode. The people at the seminar explained that getting a film-look on video versus transferring video to film are two very different things. If you want to transfer from the XL1 to film, the most important thing to do is get the cleanest, most optically (not electronically!) sharp images you can, and do absolutely NO film looking to what you will transfer to film. They have processes they do there. Also, it is extraordinally that you not overexpose any part of the video. The HDTV stuff that was transferred to film was played back to back with the same scene shot on 35 mm and it was INDISTINGUISHABLE--audible gasps could be heard from the audience. Hope this helps. Biagio Messina http://members.xoom.com/JPRDigiVideo/

-- Biagio Messina (biagio111@aol.com), December 13, 1998.

(posted 9066 days ago)

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