date May 2006
type short film
director Jonathan Stewart - DeFusion Films
origination format Super-16mm
camera Arri SR3
post-production format 720/25p uncompressed RGB (10-bit log datacine DDR)
my roles co-produce, organise the post-production, co-edit & co-grade
project website (including trailer) MirrorsTheFilm.com

dave wyatt and dan filming Mirrors
sunset
dave wyatt filming dan
our fire bar

Post-production workflow

  • Super-16mm developed at Technicolor
  • Scanned at Midnight Transfer on a Spirit 4k
    • Scanned at 1920×1080
    • Downconverted to 1028×720 on a clipster @ Midnight Transfer (we had to downconvert because we didn’t have enough storage space for the full 80 minutes of footage at 1920×1080)
    • Transfered onto 2×250GB USB2 hard disks as DPX files
  • Imported into After Effects 7 Pro and converted to DV for off-line edit
  • Off-line edit done in Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0
  • Edit imported back into After Effects and the DV clips were manually replaced with the DPX files
  • Graded using Synthetic Aperture’s Color Finesse