What is the advantage of using a Red One camera over a 35mm? Approx. how much would it cost to transfer a 90 minute film from a Red One to 35mm film?
What is the advantage of using a Red One camera over a 35mm? Approx. how much would it cost to transfer a 90 minute film from a Red One to 35mm film?
Costs. You alleviate the costs of film, processing, telecine, color timing, and everything involved in shooting on film versus digital.
The cost of getting RED footage back to 35mm film is approx $500 per minute so 90x500=$45,000.00 (approx).
Given the current box office needs for film prints, why spend the money on a film print before you have to? In most cases, a distributor would eat those costs of the film print transfer anyways IF they are going to release the film theatrically.
What if you wnated to enter the film into a film festival? Would'nt you have to pay for the transfer?
He'd have to be. Do suites even still exist to chop up a work print with razor blades and tape?
What if they want cool transition FX or digital FX?
Wow.
Do they score the movie at the same time?
How do they know the timing wont change if they do that?
Also, how do they make copies of it for the sound guys to work on at the same time?
This older technology is fascinating to me - I'm surprised they made any movies at all back then. It's like life without cell-phones and i-Pods, unfathomable.