Re:The Movie Mistake Mystery from "Revenge of the Sith"
by SoftTalker on Sunday April 20, 2025 @09:35PM
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A tiny expense in the grand scheme of things. The original film stock probably cost an order of magnitude more.
Re:The Movie Mistake Mystery from "Revenge of the Sith"
by Melatonic on Monday April 21, 2025 @03:07AM
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You probably are not gonna to need 16 bit DPX for anything but high end compositing with CG
Your point still stands but a good quality cineform or something is plenty. And you can definitely get 21TB cheaper than 1000$
> When a film is professionally scanned in 16-bit color as DPX image files, every single frame weighs in at 100 MB.
> With upwards of 175,000 frames in each film, a complete scan requires about 21 TB of storage
> 42 TB if you want a backup copy!
> And then you need at least another 21 TB of space to work on it
> over $1,000 just in hard drives is therefore required for every film