Filmshooting

Sad news. Makes me think about the huge amounts of workload and manhours I put onto my shoulders... I think I will hire more staff and try to take more time off. Thanks for the heads up mr. Flatwood.

I´d say shoot with 500T when shooting lowlight. If you want to mix it with Tri-X, just desaturate it in post.

/EDIT: Ah, grainy just beat me my 500T suggestion with a few seconds...

Ah, wonderful story! I didn´t know it was that precious footage I had received (although all family footage is precious, this must be over the regular level of "preciousness").

Good for you guys! Sadly, it seems that you can only order if you live in the US. I tried to search fot a shop on the Swedish Kodak webpage... but I couldn´t find any.

Oh, man! Good to hear you are still with us, get well and keep on posting!

If you have the option, never use RW discs, always use R discs.
If it is a RW-disc, then they might have accidentally erased the disc because it it a Re-Writeable disc.

Was it a R-disc or a RW-disc?
Have they tried to access the disc on a few other computers?

I´ve been making DVDs since 2002 I believe. Back then it was a question of having either + or -, I remember a Sony was my first multi-format DVD-burner. Oh, it was a luxury to be able to burn both formats with one drive! 8)

Alright, a history lesson! From the beginning when recordable DVDs was all new and cool a few companies made the DVD-R discs and DVD-R burners. This was their design, their patented stuff and they wanted this to become industry standard. Then a few other companies made the DVD+R discs and DVD+R burn...

There is also the chance that it is a DVD+R disc and their DVD-drive can only read DVD-R discs. Or the other way around. As others have suggested, they should try to read it on a few different computers.

Sure, the bonus-footage or another film on the DVD/Blu-ray can be with a different framerate, or at least I am quite sure that is should work just fine.

But you cannot have different scenes on one film with different framerates.

60p also exist right? Yes, in the US as a Blu-ray framerate for 1280x720, and 50p exists in europe as a Blu-ray framerate for 1280x720. These framerates are much better for smooth motion, so if you go for a HD-transfer get it transferred to 60p in 720p if you are in the US, or to 50p 720p if you ar...

No, it isn´t. It has to do with standardized framerates and such, for material shot film 16 or 18 fps you need pulldown, either by repeating frames (sharper results), by mixing interlace-fields (not as sharp, but preferred by some for a bit smoother motion) or by creating new frames that are supp...

If you can wait until June, the new Final Cut Pro X will be released for a crazy-low price of $299...

Yes... how many perforations are totally lost in a row? If you get it transferred with a FlashscanHD, the laser-stabilised image can help with serious perforation damage. It can even transfer film that has no perforations left by calculating where the perforations should be. I believe it was up to a...