Film>Digital>Film

Once you have shot film, gotten it developed and transferred, you put it into your computer to edit it. Once you are done editing it, you want to put the digital cut and print that to film... How do you go from Film to Digital edit to Film without losing the quality of the film? And once you have your cut finished, how do you put that back on film? Jacob

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You will need to conform your original film negative to the video edit. You will then cut the negative and strike prints the usual way.

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How do i know what negs to use? This is the most confusing part to me.

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In general the DP will chose what stock to use based on discssions with you, the director. But if you're going to shoot it yourself then you'll need to learn what the different negative stocks can do. Are you shooting the film yourself?

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Yes I am. Plus-X Reversal by Kodak.

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Plus X isn't a negative stock. It's a reversal stock. So I'm not sure what you mean what you say you don't know what negs to use. Maybe that's why you're confused. You aren't using a negative stock at all.

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Well if you say I have to conform to the original neg, then I'd use the original positive... but I don't understand why or how.

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When making release prints it's best to shoot on a negative stock and not a reversal stock. Negative stock is used to print multiple positive prints - the negative never runs through the projector. Using a positive (called reversal) stock makes making prints much harder. With reversal you run the stock through the camera, get it developed and then run that same stock on the projector - projecting the original footage that ran through the camera. With a negative you run the neg in the camera and then make a print (called a "workprint") that you would edit. Now-a-days there is no need to make that workprint. You develop the negative, transfer it to a digital format and edit that. Then you conform from your EDL to the negative. Once the neg is cut - only that one time - many prints can be made of the final movie. You can do the same thing with reversal stock but a positive to positive print loses quality - that's why people shoot negative.

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