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Acquisition Formats

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

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