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4k on to a 35mm film

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Hi.
Could anyone recomend a good lab that you have used to blow up a movie shot on 4k, on to a 35mm film?
 
It's not really a blow-up, it's a digital-to-film transfer using a film recorder. Or you could call it film recording.

Most labs now have D.I. facilities that do this work. Not cheap though. You have to keep in mind that the 35mm stock alone to transfer an entire feature accounts for $10,000 of the costs. And this is assuming it doesn't need any D.I. work (conversion and conforming of files, color-correction, etc.), that it's already in the finished format for film recording.
 
Risskow said:
Hi.
Could anyone recomend a good lab that you have used to blow up a movie shot on 4k, on to a 35mm film?
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Blow up is actually a wrong term as most film recorders are 2K and the red shoots 4K, four times the frame size. It's more like a shrink down or squeeze down to film.

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David
 
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My mistake, I´m asking about digital-to-film transfer.
It will not need any D.I. work.
Could you recommend a lab, please?
 
David Battistella said:
Blow up is actually a wrong term as most film recorders are 2K and the red shoots 4K, four times the frame size. It's more like a shrink down or squeeze down to film.

:)

David
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Well, most Arrilasers I've seen do both 4K and 2K.

It's not a blow-up or a shrink-down -- pixel resolution is not the issue because film does not have pixels. You are transferring a digital file onto a piece of film. The digital file does not have a physical size that is larger or smaller than the physical size of the 35mm film. "Blow-up" implies an optical process.
 
Risskow said:
My mistake, I´m asking about digital-to-film transfer.
It will not need any D.I. work.
Could you recommend a lab, please?
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What is your location?

There is a minimal DI work that needed just an one light... at least...

Except if you don't care about the result...
 
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We are making a full scale movie and we need to transfer it to a film for entries to festivals. I'm located in scandinavia and therefore english is not my 1st language and maybe I'm not making myself clear enough, I apologize. I just didn't know I had to write an 100 word essay about my full knowledge in Red and filmprocess to get a simple answer and not to be regarded as an blabbering retart. I'm not asking about the process of transferring the movie on to a film or all the process we have go through before we do so, I know. The reason I said "it vill not need any D.I. work" is because I wasn't asking about that and I don't need any more info or discussion about that. Everything will be done properly by professionals, don't worry about that and I'm very impressed by your knowledge in the matter, maybe I'm just not asking the right crowd. The original question was if any of you could recommend a lab for the job, I need names. Very simple. Thank you.
 
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