Thursday, October 2, 2008

Answer Print and Duplication

Once the answer print is lined up you want to make sure the color corrections made in the DI world are coming across to the film. There are various LUT (look up tables) used to insure the film stock will match the color correction, but we found that it takes a few tests to get the right translation. Remember, once you go to a negative you are in the analogue world which works with printer lights and chemicals.

After everything looks good, the basic premise is to create a Inter-Positive>Inter-Negative>release prints to the theater. The lab calculates how many of each you will need b/c you can only make a certain number of Inter-Negs from an Inter-Pos and so on.

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