does anyone know of a company who does this and about how much it costs? thanks.

It generally costs around $100 per minute of footage.
R. Michael

"Luck, is when opportunity, meets preperation." "There are 3 sides to every story. Yours, mine, and the truth, and none of us are lying" -Robert Evans
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Wow, that's pretty cheap...I would have thought it'd be much more expensive than that somehow...

I don't know what you get with Tizzy's 100 bucks a minute (maybe you found a killer deal), but when I looked into it, to get optical sound, a negative and a one light answer print, it was $250-350/minute.

Off the top of my head, these are two companies that do it.
http://www.dvfilm.com
http://www.digitalfilmgroup.net

DuArt, Technicolor, and a lot of more labs do it in manhattan

300 a minute....that is still very cheap, I expected more.

Is it the same price if you go from super 16 to 35mm?

You normally have to do 75+ minutes to get these prices.

Uh yeah... I got my figures crossed. I pulled up some old figures from a DV to 35mm transfer we did and typed that, then later looked and saw it was $250 a minute (color correction was seperate) and that was still them cutting us a break. Sorry about that. $250 to $350 is pretty much iess footage. Once again proving I dont have all the answers.
R. Michael

"Luck, is when opportunity, meets preperation." "There are 3 sides to every story. Yours, mine, and the truth, and none of us are lying" -Robert Evans
Tizzy Entertainment "Redemption" Hi-Def trailer

I dunno about 35mm, but at Savannah College of Art and Design it costs .10 cents/min to develop 16mm. We get the invaulable student discount!

Thomas Verrette
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Imperial Pictures

Hmm, Im confused now. Tizzy from earlier discussions it soudned like your using the DVX-100 to shoot most of your shorts/wtw, but to create a film festival quality/DVD wouldnt it need to go to 35MM?

Also, is the transfer to 35MM the biggest cost in most short films? Because it seems like it would cost aroud $40,000 which for some smaller movies sounds about the whole budget.

We're talking per minute of footage transfered from video to film--and you're college probably charges ten cents a foot, not a minute. Normal 16mm 24FPS is about 36 feet per minute. ...ten cents/foot is still a really good deal.

Darkfire, you're right. If you plan on paying $35k to blow up to 35mm, you should seriously be concidering shooting 35 originally (okay, it's not quite that simple). But, if you plan to shop your dv feature around and have a distributor pick it up, then you won't be paying the cost of the transfer (well, you will... it'll come out of your back end). But that cost comes from P&A, not the film's budget. But to make a DVD or screen at festivals with digital projector, all you need is a DV25 or DigiBeta copy. The only reason you need 35mm is to screen on a 35mm projector.

Yeah, UCSD's lab charged $.10/foot for students (16mm B&W reversal only). Pro-labs sometimes cut students even better deals (I used to get $.07/foot for color neg). There'd be little point in charging $.10/minute, though. They might as well do it for free.

The lowest rate I ever heard for transferring DV to 35mm was $150/minute. The thing to remember is that you get what you pay for! I've never seen a particularly impressive blow-up of DV to 35mm, but some are much worse than others.

You also have to be sure that you know what that money gets you from the lab, and what you need to provide them with. Here are some good questions you may want to ask. Does the price get you a print? Does it get you an inter-negative? Does it get you a soundtrack? Does it include the interpolation to 24p?

Lab costs are such a deceptive thing. As far as Super16 goes, the student-rate estimate I got from an exceptional lab, that I've used for almost everything I've done on film, was about $450/minute (Assuming 3:1 shooting ratio) for all lab costs. That price got us all the way to 35mm print (It did not include neg-cutting, which they don't do).

Nota "Price-buster" Mono

This is slightly off-topic, but I thought the 35mm transfer of "Pieces of April" was very good.

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