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Select your acquisiton format based on your expected delivery format.
When finishing on film, use a fine grain 35mm stock. When finishing on
video, select an uncompressed digital format, or component analog format.
Motion Picture
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16mm
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Film grain is too large to yield a good composite.
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Low Resolution
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Not pin registered.
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Unuseable for compositing work.
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35mm
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Finer grain (eg. Kodak 5247 or 5295)
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High resolution
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Pin registered
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The minimum choice for film acquisition.
Video
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Hi-8
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Poor color fidelity
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Y/C
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Low resolution
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Unuseable for blue screen compositing.
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DV (DVC/DVCam/DVCPRO)
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Poor color fidelity
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Component 4:1:1 (DVCPRO50 4:2:2)
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Between 3:1 and 4:1 compression in the original footage.
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Unuseable for blue screen compositing.
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BetacamSP
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Excellent color fidelity
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Component 4:2:2
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High bandwidth/high resolution analog signal
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No compression in the signal
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Best choice for analog field acquisition.
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Digital Betacam
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Excellent color fidelity
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Component 4:2:2
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2:1 compression in the original footage.
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Must use SDI transfer into Avid to avoid recompressing the footage.
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