Can I hear from experienced 'teleciners'

[bouncybabybucket]

I'm right bang in the middle of filming a movie and when I've everything shot I'm going to get it professionally telecined.
In the mean time though Ive been DIY transfering, but the results are awful. I'm using a Sony PD150 3CCD camera, which is a pretty cool cam, but it keeps giving everything a bad blue-ish tint. The colours are so natural on the Super8 movie that I'm projecting but urrrgh through the viewfinder!
The thing is white balanced and all the usual.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

[schematic2]

I had trouble with Sony white balance as well. Try using a warmer light source. The Sony I used had no manual white balance. I eventually switched to a total manual capable canon....

[Maurizio Di Cintio]

Yeah the only way to do acceptable home made transfers is to use a totally manual camera. I set the WB at the beginning once and for good (if the fotage is properly lit and exposed) using a loop of Kodak white leader. I always get reasonably good transfers colorwise.

Hope this helps.

[woods01]

In my experience for best results project onto a large piece of white
paper not a projector screen. Place the projector as close to the paper as
you can to get focus. I found by doing this I was able to pick up a lot
more details in the film and reduce grain.

[sunrise]

I've had good results by using the camera's white balance lock. I set it first automatically with just the lamp on the screen and then lock it.

In that way I will get the colours exatly as they have been reproduced on the film independantly of projection bulb temperature.

cheers,
sunrise

[BK]

Try the 'preset' tungsten white balance setting on your PD150 rather then auto, and in one of the internal custom menu settings you can set the white balance shift to warmer or colder.

Hope this helps

Bill