Lawrence, The first and foremost thing is that the Association of Moving Image Archivists website has a brand-new Supplier Directory <http://www.amianet.org/sites/all/files/Supplier%20Diretory%20-%202014.03.pdf> that lists many of the resources anyone needs for the preservation of your materials. It's being updated constantly.
Secondly, you should have a plan for what you are doing. If you are thinking preservation, you have to do 2K or 4K scanning rather than HD transfers. You should ask for copies of the digital DPX files in both the raw scan and "fixed" scans if you are doing any timing or cleanup. Then you should also have them deliver the final uncompressed or FinalCut Pro files for your use. The files should be given to you on both hard drive and LTO-6 tape (if you can get it -- if not, LTO5 would be fine.) They should both be migrated every four or five years. For my hard drives, I always buy a very large drive (usually 8TB to 12TB) for one or two films since you will want a mirror raid on it. For extremely expensive projects, I put them on two hard drives. Yes, it sound very OCD, but this is about preservation and redundancy, not about expediency. As for a film at 18fps. You should first scan it at 24p and keep that raw scan. If you are doing any dust and scratch removal, it has to also be done at 24p and be kept. That will be your preservation master. Then, the lab can create a 18fps umcompressed or FCP file and synch it to sound. I'm working with Jack Rizzo's Metro Post now and they are doing a very good job. I've worked with ColorLab many times and I trust them implicitly as well. It would also be a matter of doing your research and seeing what the best transfer would be for your material. I always ask what scanners and software they will be using and read the recent papers that are coming out of the new research on scanners, etc. Best regards, Dennis Doros Milestone Film & Video PO Box 128 / Harrington Park, NJ 07640 Phone: 201-767-3117 / Fax: 201-767-3035 / Email: [email protected] Visit our main website! www.milestonefilms.com Visit our new websites! www.mspresents.com, www.portraitofjason.com, www.shirleyclarkefilms.com, To see or download our 2014 Video Catalog, click here <http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0150/7896/files/2014MilestoneVideoCatalog.pdf?75> ! Support "Milestone Film" on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Milestone-Film/22348485426> and Twitter <https://twitter.com/#!/MilestoneFilms>! See the website: Association of Moving Image Archivists <http://www.amianet.org/> and like them on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Association-of-Moving-Image-Archivists/86854559717> AMIA 2014 Conference, Savannah, Georgia, October 8-11, 2014 <http://www.amianet.org/> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Lawrence Brose <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m not sure if this original email came through. I might have sent it > to the wrong address for this group (I apologize if this has already been > posted). > > Lawrence > > I have a number of 16mm film prints that I would like to get transferred > to digital format. I know that there has been much discussion on this and > I’ve gone back and read some of the postings but I haven’t found a direct > answer to what I would like to know. > > I would like to know what is the best quality transfer I should be looking > for. I have a quote from ColorLab in Rockville, MD and another one from > Metro Post. Metro Post is cheaper but it is not telecine (just says > “hi-def film scan”). So before I go any further I thought that I should > ask for suggestions from all of the great people here. > > These are all finished films in good shape (unfortunately the original > negatives and Mag sound were thrown out by WRS). I don’t want to say that > cost is no issue but if I am going to preserve these films I’d rather end > up with the best quality, even if I need to space it out over time due to > cost. > > Also, one of the films runs at 18fps (sound is on separate tape). Is this > an issue? > > I really appreciate any suggestions or feedback. > > Thanks! > > Lawrence Brose > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
_______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
