The best equipments for motion picture production?

Question

I would like to know the procedure for high-end film production such as for Titanic. Which video camera is used? Which editing software is used? Which is is the best medium to store the edited video (HDCam SR?)? How the video is transfered to to film? Which are the formats used for TV Broadcasting? Thanks.

Answer 1

Well, to get movie quality, buy an amature camera by canon.

Answer 2

most films don't use video cameras.  They use 35mm film.  I believe Titanic was shot on Panavision cameras (which they have never sold).  Nearly all feature films are shot on 35mm cameras with the exception of a few.  Apocalypto was shot on the new Panavision HD Genesis and I know a few of the new Star Wars were shot on Full HD cameras.  These are not available to buy unless you've got a few million.  Panavision has never sold their cameras anyway.

Editing.  The industry standard for editing is the AVID system.  There are many versions and can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for a good setup.  They also have RAID arrays to store terabytes upon terabytes worth of footage.  The film is processed, then transferred over to a digital medium for editing, then transferred back onto film for projection and distribution.

TV broadcasting is different.  However I don't really deal with that.  you'll need someone else to answer for that.

Answer 3

Titanic was most likely shot using real film cameras (perhaps Arri cameras), using industry stock like Kodak or Fujifilm. Editing is a variable matter, the classic manner of editing film is a machine that runs directly to a back-projection screen and allows you to see your edits as you make them. Some transfer to video to make rough edits. Recently some films have been edited using Avid and Apple's Final Cut.

There are not many feature films shot on video, although the list is growing. High end cameras like Canon's HDV XLH1 and the classic Sony PD51 have been used for TV and small films. One of the recent Star Wars films was shot on high-end video.

If you are thinking about making films, you've no chance of getting high-end film equipment unless you have millions of dollars. The lighting alone costs hundreds of thousands.

Get back to me and I'll recommend some websites to point the way.