Filmshooting

Well, I live in Massachusetts, and there's a duo named Brodsky and Treadway that do very wonderful work up here. Supervised and unsupervised are billed at the same rate - about $300 an hour (!) to digi Beta.

From what I've had quoted, most places in the US will do unsupervised Rank transfers to ...

Okay, okay, I realize that not everybody will want to let the cat out of the bag, but...

I just finished editing a short feature that I had shot last year and started editing this summer (brief hiatus due to work). I am probably going to have the film transferred to video by Brodsky + Treadway up ...

I actually wouldn't recommend tape splicing at all.

There are a few advantages of tape splices:

they are non-destructive
they are removable
they can mend damaged sprocket holes

However, they have a very negative impact on picture quality. If you edit a film using tape, you will notice the film go ...

I use an old Vernon hand-cranked editor (I think Vernon is a rebranded Fuji machine, but don't quote me on that).

While it's true that hand-cranked editors can stress film out, I generally edit relatively small segments of film at a time - I usually cut my film up into individual takes and pull the ...

thanks very much! i'll let you guys know how it turns out for me.

thomas

That sounds like exactly the phone number I need! If it wouldn't be too much trouble for you to find it, I would very very very very much appreciate it.

I checked through the last half-dozen pages of posts but didn't find the particular one you mentioned (I'm back on the forum after a pretty long ...

*nod*

I'm normally totally in agreement with you. But Kodak doesn't seem to have a telephone number for motion picture film support. I tried calling one of their toll-free numbers, wasted about 15 minutes trying to explain what I was calling about, and gave up.

Have you ever called Kodak regarding ...

Hi everybody,

I bought a bunch of S8 film from one of Kodak's notorious batches of jittering film. I have shot about 25 cartridges of this stuff; of these, about 10 have had mild to severe jittering problems.

I was wondering if any of you have been sucessful in getting replacements for shot OR ...