DigiBeta to 1080i to film??

> So cutting the 35 mm footage would require lot of color correcting as the
day
> for night has to be corrected to match the night shots. Would it be easier
to
> do that in HD? Any "analogue" approach that would preserve the original
film
> feel?

That's a big "if". Depends on your footage and what needs to be done to it.

> As for 1080i: My thinking of upresing DigiBeta to 1080i was that they are
both
> interlaced while 25P may be somewhat a different breed and may not upress
as
> well. I am sure someone out there has experimented it, I am just guess
that 50i
> to 1080i is better.

PAL has to be converted from 50 fields into 25 whole frames anyway to be
transferred to film, so there's no advantage to keeping it interlaced-scan
in HD when they'd just be converting it to 25P before the film-out. Of
course, it probably depends on how well the conversion from 560/50i to
1080/25P is done.

David Mullen
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> PAL has to be converted from 50 fields into 25 whole frames anyway to be
> transferred to film, so there's no advantage to keeping it interlaced-scan
> in HD when they'd just be converting it to 25P before the film-out. Of
> course, it probably depends on how well the conversion from 560/50i to
> 1080/25P is done.
>
> David Mullen

In my humble opinion it's best NOT to transfer the digi and film to HD
unless you know exactly how the machines handle it. Day for night can
be corrected on film rather well depending on your color timer and
lab. The digi can best be color corrected before transferring it to
film. Last film I did containing film and tape I decided to do it this
way and it saved me a lot of time, money and worries by staying on the
original source as long as possible.

The true gain when it comes to HD is when you decide that some of the
35 mm material is going to be worked on in a 2k environment. HD can
then give you an overall good look because all of the 35 mm is going
to look the same. But if there is no need to go 2k, there is little
need to go HD.
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