Soderbergh is a wild man...

[Stephen Webb]

Costs are more expensive here in the UK, but £300,000 for an HD film-out is way overpriced. Last time I checked a 4K film-out for a 2 hour feature was around £250,000 - and even then it was a load cheaper to get it done in the States.

 

[Michael Booth]

$300,000 is usually more the cost of a feature-length D.I., which is more than just the laser recording costs.

But if this was simply the cost of a film-out alone -- no scanning, no color-correcting, no conforming, no dust removal, no effects or transitions added, etc. -- then you are being overcharged. An Arrilaser recorder transfer of a 100 minute HD-shot movie is generally around $70,000-80,000 at the high end (at a place like EFILM) and more like $50,000 at smaller houses (Alpha Cine in Seattle for example, or Digital Film Lab in Copenhagen, if they still exist.)

Many thanks indeed David that is most helpful (and to you Stephen as well). I'll pass that on to the powers that be. Damn, we could make another film for £300,000!