DVD/videotape to 16mm/35mm conversion?

Question

I made a short film and I put it onto DVD and I know about converting film to Dvd and video conversions but it's the other way round meaning that will I able to transfer my short film from DVD to either 16mm or 35mm? if so How much would I be paying for the conversion?

so incase of the event I can show my film in a picture theatre.

Answer 1

most possibly the expenses to be incurred for conversion wud be quite prohibitive, not to mention the complexity.

- try to just borrow or rent a relatively high ansi-lumens (brightness) lcd or dlp projector (minimum 3500 ansi lumens, better at 5000) if the theater isn't equipped for digital projection.

- connect to a dvd player or better yet to ur pc., simpler

- connect player or pc to the audio sys.- house mixer

- not much operational complexity,even for non-techies... pretty simple connections

Answer 2

you can take resolution away, but you can't put it back. ie you can make a DVD from a movie, but not the other way around.

The DVD version of you show is MPEG2 compressed, which means about 80% of the frames are virtual, they are interpolated. The conversion of video at 30 fps to theatrical film at 24 fps requires yet another interpolation step since the video frames, virtual or not, do not line up with the film frames.  At this point the motion resolution will be so poor as to not be worth projection.

To make a good film transfer, the original footage must be shot in 24 fps progressive and not MPEG2 compressed.