Film Festivals

Just upgraded to FCEHD and was wondering if most festivals require HD for submissions. Also, what is the best quality DV tapes and DVD-R's?
Thanks!
Jennifer
imac G5

Each film festival tends to have their own submission standards. Best to visit their websites where they usually post that info, or contact them by mail/phone to see what they want. This is the best way as I've seen requirements ranging from VHS to DV to DVD ...
As for DVD-Rs a lot of people swear by Verbatim. I've had good success with Maxell and Memorex. Apple brand is very reliable but tends to be more expensive. Definitely stick to a major name brand rather than no name (tho honestly, I've had success with those too but they are not always reliable)

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Resolution for .mov files for film festivals

Some film festivals are asking for .mov files for screenings. Nowhere can I find what type or resolution they want or if there's an industry standard.
I have seen that if they play it back from a laptop (and you never know) that too high a resolution won't work.
Is there a standard for movie theaters?
Thanks.

Neal Fox wrote:
… Is there a standard for movie theaters?…
Yes and No
DCP is a worldwide, digital delivery standard for commercial theaters. But, by standards, is for example 'limited' to 24fps - sad news, for Mr P. Jackson or J.Cameron (no idea, how HFR nor 3D is delivered…)
highly complex to encode, there are specialized companies offering 'transfer services' - $$$, creates enormous files (an intra-compression codec), asks for 'Linux formatted/ext2'-drives, etc etc etc ,.. . (just read about it - no clue what I'm talking about!!)
Plan B)
ask the theatre what they want …or use.
Plan C)
1080/24p, h.264/high profile/20mbps in a mp4 should be very universal … (who asks for mov can playback mp4 too)
… but then, next question:
What media? stick, dataDisk, hard drive, ftp-upload?
What format? fat32 (doesn't work for longer movies…), exFat, ntfs??
some non-commercial festivals allow/prefer delivery by BluRay or even on DVD ...
again, 'limited' too, but very, very universal …

FCE project to DVD and to actual film for film festivals

I'm almost done with a documentary around 1 hour in length. I want to enter it in a few film festivals. Some require DVD format, another needs an actual film copy of it after submission (if it gets in). I'm also trying to get use of a movie theatre to show a private screening of it when finished.
Here's the question. Will everything be messed up because FCE uses 30 frames per second and film uses 24 fps? Can the transfer be made from a DVD itself or what steps do I need to take to have a good quality copy of a DVD and film too.
I've just learned FCE for this project and haven't output anything yet. Only have experience with iMovie to iDVD or using Toast to burn DVD of past projects.
Thanks for any help you can give.
Anne Z

The film will cost you around $20000 and if you think now about this issue - that is kind of very late in the game. If you need help look here:
http://www.hdforindies.com
Cheers
Andreas

Good app to help edit my students' video to attend the Student Film Festivals

I am a teacher of a Video Production Class, and my students and I are trying to use Canon XF105 cameras to do some shootings. The output files are MXF , and this is the first time my students working with this caliber camera. We need to do some edits on our raw videos to make some shot movies in order to submit them to student film festivals. I have tried many ways but this MXF files just can’t load in iMovie successfully. So I use this Pavtube MXF Converter for Mac to help me do this hard step, then I can load them into iMovie flawlessly.

You may want to try Handbrake, which is free, and see if it will convert the MXF file(s) into a format that will work with iMovie. I read a post on another site and the poster said he had converted a short MXF file using Handbrake. Handbrake is free but make sure you download it from the official site. You can try Brorsoft MXF Converter for Mac or Pavtube MXF Converter for Mac (both are $29 each). I haven't used either so I can't attest as to whether or not they will work.

Submitting to film festivals, need BEST quality! iDVD the answer?

I'm submitting my short film to festivals and need to burn DVDs of it to send!
My short is in a .mov format (compressed at 1.63 GB). I burned a copy of it with iDVD and the quality was much worse than the compressed file's quality. Is there a better way to do it, or different application that would be a better choice?
Thanks so much for your help! I'm anxious to send my entries off as soon as possible.
Sasha

Get Roxio Toast 10 Titanium Pro. If I'm not mistaken it now also includes an excellent app called Fotomagico which is highly recommended on this iDvd forum. Essentially you get two GREAT apps for the price of one.
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Best way to export a 720p project to a 1080 file for film festival

I have a 4 year long project, in FCP7, with a 720/24 timeline. Most footage was shot 720, though some later was shot 1080... the film is complete, and now has been accepted into film festivals. (YAY!) Now I need to create a 1080/24 Pro Res file for a festival screener.
What is the BEST way to create that file?
Right now FCP 7 is chugging away in the background as I tried Export->QuickTime Movie and selected the desired codec, and checked recompress all frames and make movie self contained.
Is this the best way?
And, I need to FedEx this out tonight... :-)
Thanks in advance for your help...
kevin
Portland Maine

>Right now FCP 7 is chugging away in the background as I tried Export->QuickTime Movie and selected the desired codec, and checked recompress all frames and make movie self contained.
No. Don't recompress...that adds a layer of compression. Simply export a QT movie...self contained, using the sequence settings. And then use Compressor to resize it to 1080.

Problems in DVD Studio for Film Festival Short Film

I'm trying to package my short film for a DVD to send to film festivals. I sent it to Compressor from FCP and used the HDDVD settings to compress it to H.264. Then I opened it in DVD Studio Pro and burnt a disc, but the disc will not play on stand alone DVD players and when it plays on my computer, the picture is very "jumpy." What do I need to change? If I need to go back to Compressor and re-compress, what settings do I need to use? I want to have the highest possible quality. The footage is 1080p (natively H.264 and transcoded to Apple ProRes 422). Thanks!

SD DVD is a highly compressed format designed to cram a lot of material onto a disk.
Compressing material to look as good as it can in the m2v (mpeg2) codec is a little of a dark art.
Start with one of the standard presets in Compressor for DVDs and experiment. If your material is less than 1 hour, you might get away with bumping up the bitrate to 7. I find Constant Bit Rate (CBR) usually gives me better results with short pieces. Variable Bit Rate (VBR) compression comes into play when you are trying to fit longer pieces (over an hour) with lots of action into a 4.7GB disk.
Create a bunch of presets and do some trials. Look at the outcome. Pick the settings that yield the best visual outcome for your particular video.
Have fun.
x

Outputting a finished FCPX film to Vimeo, DVD and .mov

I have just finished editing a film and now need to get a DVD copy for sublitting to the film festivals, and a .mov file for uploading to Vimeo and also for putting on my website.
I created a .mov file by going to the Share menu and choosing Export media. That gave me a 2.5gb file [for a 3min film] and the quality seemed great. I then also used the Share menu and chose the DVD option. The quality of this was not great though and it gave me a very soft image.
Would I be better off using something like Compressor to make a DVD and then also being able to create different size .mov files for things like VImeo or should I just burn my existing .mov file with Toast?
If I use Toast [or Compressor] can I create a region 0 DVD as that is what a lot of the film festivals seem to want submitted?
Sorry if these are all stupid or obvious questions.
Mark

It sounds like your project is HD. A DVD is SD, so you lose detail, which is the softness you are seeing. Going from HD to SD can look a little better if you use anamorphic rather than letterboxing to deal with the aspect ratio.
Compressor has a very high-quality resizing option (frame controls ON, best quality) which can make the result look better.
Although Compressor will produce the correct codec and file type to use in a DVD, it will not combine them to make the actual DVD. Since the region code is part of the DVD authoring process, Compressor has no effect on region.
Toast can both compress and author, or you can just use Toast to make the DVD from the Compressor files. Toast makes DVDs playable in all Regions, which is essentially the same as region-free.
You can also make the DVD directly from within FCX, but there are fewer options than Toast:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_x_share_export_stone.html

Mac computer and camera for Film Festival productions

I use a Mac Book for Writing. I watched the imovie09 tutorial and want to use it for making quality short films. Can I do this on a Mac Mini? Do Macs work seamlessly with what they need the finished products in? I think they want DVD samples and Mini DV tapes for showing. Suggestions?

Most film festivals accept DVDs for submission.
You can use a Mac Mini to make a great video.
The camera, what's in front of the camera, and who's behind the camera
are much more important than the computer.
If you're selected, you'll have time to figure out whatever they need to show.
Just make sure to keep your master edit (and back it up!).
By the way, www.withoutabox.com is an excellent resource for finding and submitting to festivals.

When submitting to film festival should i put 'exhibition copy' inda film?

A friend told me that when submitting to film festivals, you should put a logo in the corner of the whole video that says "Exhibition Copy". I've never seen this and I want to know if anyone can confirm this. If so, what does it look like? An examples on the web? Can this be done in Final Cut?
Thanks for your help,
Mark

Yes, I put a small company logo onto the video image, water mark.

New 16:9 squeeze vs. 4:3 question (hopefully not a re-hash)

first of all, i did numerous searches to find the answer to this...couldn't find it. if this has BEEN answered before, please either answer again or direct me to the proper thread. please be kind. flaming is not necessary.
i work at a broadcast station. i am tasked to do a project that will be viewable in both 4:3 and 16:9. (we won't go into why. that's just the way it is.)
i'm shooting with a dvx100a.
from what i understand:
the only way to have one project do both of these is to shoot in 16:9 and export to dvd and the dvd player will know whether i have a 4:3 TV or a 16:9 TV and out put accordingly.
i don't have that option - it will be broacast, so as i understand it, i will have to create two projects, one 4:3 and one 16:9.
i have two questions but i guess the second is dependent on the answer to the first.
with 4:3 footage, importing to a 16:9 timeline, i zoom the footage to fill in the empty vertical space. the image is now distorted on a 4:3 set, but fine on a 16:9 set, as it should be. correct so far?
so, first question: if i import 16:9 footage into a 4:3 timeline, then zoom to fill in the empty horizontal space, will the image be fine on a 4:3 set and distorted on a 16:9 set?
second question:
for 16:9, from all that i've read, it's better to shoot 4:3, where you won't loose resolution, import to 16:9 timeline and zoom (where some resolution will now be lost.
for 4:3, no problem, no resolution lost BUT: if i'm shooting only once, for both 4:3 and 16:9 viewing, then i have to frame the 4:3 for 16:9 while shooting. so when converted to 16:9 fine, good picture with framing. but with 4:3, more head room and bottom than i want. so the question is if i shoot in 4:3, framing for 16:9, but import to a 4:3 timeline for the 4:3 project, i will still have to zoom in to loose the excesive headroom, ergo, loss of resolution again.
so in this case, would it matter whether i shoot 4:3 or 16:9? the only problem i see shooting 16:9 for 4:3 is that first, i loose resolution shooting 16:9 to start with and then when i import the 16:9 to the 4:3 timeline and zoom in to fill the aspect ratio, i'm loosing even more resolution. does this sound right?
anything i missed?
thanks very much in advance
carl

HI Tom,
Thank you for your quick response. I did not think there was a way to modify geometry at ingest to fcp, but thought i would ask.
Actually, I would like to preserve HD resolution, but I need a 4:3 versus 16:9 aspect ratio - silent film look. Also, it will be important during editing to see the 4:3 image.
Output will be internet or projection at film festivals, etc.
Given that would you recommend simply trimming (cropping) pixels in fcp and then do the final transcode to my output format after edit or doing another ProRes 422 transcode to get to 4:3 right off the bat?
Also, any opinion regarding the perceivable quality differences from capturing in ProRes 422 versus 422 LT? There is a lot I want to do in post using subtle effects to get the look of an old film - gamma, motion, grain, etc.
Capture time tonight after final day of shooting. If I save the original AVCHD files to a directory my understanding is that I could always recapture the original clips at a different ProRes setting? Whatever in and out points I used in log and transfer would apply to a "re-ingest"?
First time using a file versus tape work flow.
Thanks,
Wayne

Floating Footer ; help me stick the little guy to the bottom Once and For all

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Full length feature on FCP from mini-DV... benchmarking comparable DVD's

After over a year of post production, we just completed a full length kids’ feature film shot on a DVX-100A and edited in FCP. The title is "The Bracelet of Bordeaux", and the movie info is on IMDb and our website. This was a large scale project, with almost 300 actors, 50 crew members and 18 interior/exterior locations. There were over 60 shooting days. It was shot on mini-DV due to budgetary considerations.
The movie’s look-feel is exceptional, especially when viewed on a Mac HD screen and Sony NTSC monitor. However, when we first tested the movie in a theatre, playing a DVD through a high-end projection system, the quality was terrible. Ultimately, we achieved outstanding results by playing directly off the uncompressed FCP timeline through a Barco Hi Def projector and onto a 40-ft screen. We held a major theatrical test screening (3,000 people attended 10 shows), and the movie’s visual quality was stunningly good, receiving acclaim from audiences and critics. The results looked particularly film-like in the mid to back rows of the theatre (even numerous professional viewers thought that it was film). You can view audience comments and media reviews on IMDb.
Now we are creating a DVD to send to film festivals and prospective distributors. Of course, we will not be able to determine the projection system used at the festivals and the movie will mostly be exhibited from a DVD. I would like to know what full length feature films are out there, which were shot on mini-DV (especially the DVX100 or 100A), and edited on FCP, so I can use them to benchmark our DVD results. I have been living in the edit dungeon for over 14 months and have not kept track of movies shot in mini-DV and editing on Macs. Also, please provide any observations about the cinematic quality of these films
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8) FCP, DVDSP

https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/sales_o/04reports/2004webWW/WorldWideWW/ stuffsingaporeWW/stuffsingaporeWW.html
this film was shot DV
However I can't help feel you are about to embark on a wild goose chase.
If you are going to distribute a movie on DVD for projection in multiple theatres with different equipment for screenings you will not attend I don't see what you hope to achieve.
DVD is by nature a "standard" without too much room for manoeuvre if you are supplying what must effectively be labelled a consumer market. You will have to conform your movie to a bitrate which is sympathetic to all DVD players and not for example use a DVD9 and a higher bitrate for a DVD player you own and know will work.
Cinematic quality is subjective also, which has a true film look The Sound of Music or The Matrix ? There are plenty of filters out there to give a film look and feel but to be honest the defining factor between film and video is often the quality of lighting, acting and camera work and not so much a blatant "look". It's audience acceptance of a piece in a theatre environment, which is a big help in the first place since we all associate the cinema with film (oh and adverts for the local tandoori).
Your film will look inherently different to the competition and so it should . . don't compare it!

MX02 or MX02 mini

I need to do some color correction on a few short films, mostly for film festivals. I've explained to the producer that I would need more than my MBP screen to monitor properly. She said "What do you need to get?" My understanding is that the MX02 mini would be a good choice. Or perhaps the MX02. And then I could use a consumer TV monitor.
A few questions:
The mini doesn't support HD-SDI. Is that a big deal? I'm just not sure what I'd ever need that for.
Also, what exactly are the limitations as to 23.98 frame rates? I often edit 23.98 timelines. Any problem monitoring and outputting those?
For those of you getting the MX02 rather than the MX02 mini, what are your main reasons that the mini is inadequate?
Thanks for any advice.

I need to do some color correction on a few short films, mostly for film festivals. I've explained to the producer that I would need more than my MBP screen to monitor properly. She said "What do you need to get?" My understanding is that the MX02 mini would be a good choice. Or perhaps the MX02. And then I could use a consumer TV monitor.
A few questions:
The mini doesn't support HD-SDI. Is that a big deal? I'm just not sure what I'd ever need that for.
Also, what exactly are the limitations as to 23.98 frame rates? I often edit 23.98 timelines. Any problem monitoring and outputting those?
For those of you getting the MX02 rather than the MX02 mini, what are your main reasons that the mini is inadequate?
Thanks for any advice.

Serious problem requiring URGENT assistance please!

I've been editing a short film shot on RED in 4k using Premiere Pro CS5 but have encountered an error with the following message when I last tried opening the project:
Premiere Pro has encountered an error
[..\..\Src\Clip\Masterclip.cpp-2802]
There's a button to continue after which, Premiere runs into a serious error and has to close. This happens everytime I open the project and literally started out of the blue it seems! I can "recover" the project and continue work on the edit by creating a new premiere project and importing the old one into the new one but the problem then persists after saving and closing the project and re-opening on my next session!
The other major problem that this is causing is that I cannot export .AAF or .OMF files out to my sound designers - the export will begin but then the progress bar will "hang" and not go any further. I previously exported an .AAF and .OMF for this project as a test to make sure it will all work and it was fine, but since getting the above error and having to create fresh projects out of old projects I cannot get these files out to complete the film! This problem also extends to things using dynamic link it would seem - for example, if I try to export the timeline using AME, the progress bar will get stuck at "connecting to dynamic link" though curiously if I do a direct export through Premiere I have no problems and can export an encoded video. Also, it seems I can still export edl's and FCP xml successfully, though after successfully importing an xml back into a new premiere project, the error struck again soon after when I tried to select the entire timeline and copy it to the clipboard to paste it into a new sequence!
I thought it might be an idea to delete all the temp files in the media cache folder buried deep within my c:drive, thinking that may be causing the error, but to no avail as I still get the error issue.
I'm getting very worried about the integrity of my project and all my hard work being ground to a halt or worse still totally corrupted so I would appreciate any assistance from someone who may have a solution to this problem! This has been a real pain as the edit has been going swimmingly up until now and we're fast approaching a deadline we were trying to make for submission to some film festivals, so I desperately need to get this to work so I can export the omf and aaf at the very least to my sound guys!
Thank you all in advance,
Kaushik

Ok, so I seem to have pinpointed the problem a little further... here are my findings so far:
So, the project I am running has multiple sequences. I've been using different sequences for different progressions of the cut, so if I made a major revision to a cut, I would duplicate the sequence, rename the copy and continue work within this new sequence to cut further.
I just did a test trying to export an OMF from a sequence iteration previous to the most current one that I'm working within and the export works just fine! In fact, I then proceeded to trying the export from all other previous sequences (I four or five in the project in total) and they all work fine when trying to export etc - it's just the most up-to-date cut that is bugging and I can't figure out for the life of me why this is the case!!!
The last test I tried was trying to copy and paste the contents of the troublesome sequence into a newly created sequence (I did so by first duplicating and then with that failing, creating a completely fresh sequence instead) but I must be copying over the error/bug as that new sequence suffers the same export issues as I have already detailed in my original post.
If anyone can help me with this issue that would be wonderful as it's getting quite frustrating being such a weird little bug that is setting our schedule back!
Thanks again in advance,
Kaush

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