A question about 16mm film to video conversion. My dad shot about 10,000 feet of silent 16mm film when I was young. I am using a good film conversion house to make the conversion for me. I have limited money to spend, so the conversion house suggested having the film converted to 480p 30fps segmented avi, converted with 30 film frames per second on the avi. I have Avid Media Composer 2.8.1 available to "stretch" the converted video so that it will run at the proper speed. My question is whether the speed correction will make for a jerky or unpleasing rendering of the film. Also, should I edit it as a 30fps progressive project or a 24p project. Thanks for your help. I am a newbie at this and have spent many hours searching this on the net without much payoff.
you can take resolution away, but you can't put it back. ie you can make a DVD from a movie, but not the other way around. The DVD version of you show is MPEG2 compressed, which means about 80% of the frames are virtual, they are interpolated. The conversion of video at 30 fps to theatrical film at 24 fps requires yet another interpolation step since the video frames, virtual or not, do not line up with the film frames. At this point the motion resolution will be so poor as to not be worth projection. To make a good film transfer, the original footage must be shot in 24 fps progressive and not MPEG2 compressed.
