Friends,

I am new member to this group, and the knowledge-sharing-attitude of the folks around here made me to join this group. The amount of collective knowledge in this forum archives seems enormous.

I too have few questions to bring up. I checked the archives, and did not see any discussion on this, and hence shooting here … (forgive me if it is a repeat)

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Can someone draw a comparison between the following two options from the perspective of “possible loss of quality”?

a.Shoot footage in film, scan it to digital, digitally manipulate the footage, and record it back on to the film.

versus

b.Shoot footage in DV, digitally manipulate, and blow up into film
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Thank You.
Bhanigma

welcome!

i'm not an expert, but i do know that if you shoot film, scan to digital, and print back to film and do it all properly there will be virtually NO quality loss. however, the systems needed for working with full res film scans are expensive.

digital blow up to film looks pretty bad unfortunately

someone else will be able to explain better.

anything originally shot on film, color corrected (correctly) whether on digital or not, and then back onto film will always have a higher quality than digital to film.

Ive been thinking about this same topic recently. I shot a film on a cannon GL1 and it looks prety nice and ive always tried to imagine what it would look like if it was printed to film but apparently the loss in quality isnt worth it and its better to just project the movie from a DVD or straight from the DV tape!

Those resposes were useful. Thank you, friends.

TheOneStudentFilmDirector(i shall call you tosfd... jks), it depends on the post production processes you put on the dv footage before recording as to the quality of print you get. It can end up looking ok.