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transferring positive

Contributed by Glen Berry

I am a music video director, who has always gone from the negative straight to video in the telecine, and I am wondering how printing the film before the telecine would change the look of the image, in terms of slickness, contrast, and color?

Actually, the process you have been using is the most common one. One trick you may to consider with printing: it's pretty common to create a high-contrast print from the neg and then transfer to video for television. This may require some experimentation to get a noticeable improvement in contrast range. For color reproduction, another process that seems to work well is finding a third-party organization to tweak the color in your print. There are some companies out there that specialize in this, Cerulean Color being one that comes to mind.

Berry is the founder of the Northwest Film School and the creator of Film Underground, a popular and successful network of Moviemaking web sites that includes Cyber Film School.

A former member of the Whatcom Film Association Board of Directors, he also has twice served as the director of the Northwest Projections Film Festival. An award-winning filmmaker, Berry specializes in post production and is currently employed as an editor and post production supervisor on professional independent productions. Berry has written for “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Filmmaking,” “MovieMaker Magazine,” Cyberfilmschool.com and Filmfestivals.com. He also has served as an expert source for international newspaper and radio media outlets.

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