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zambi
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Posted - Dec 24 2012 : 2:00AM

Lot of gonzo companies shoot scenes on video then transfer the video to film. Often the results look worse with washed out colors and dark spots. Looks a lot worse than if they had shot on real film but of course real film is more expensive. So why do it all? Is there some cost benefit or is it totally for artistic reasons?
mharris127
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Posted - Dec 24 2012 : 4:31AM
The equipment to shoot video (usually digital media nowadays) is much cheaper than equipment for film. Since the average porn movie budget is about $15K shooting directly to film is not financially possible for most producers. Actually with DVD and online viewing which is all digitized I am surprised any companies are using film at all -- since the old movie houses are almost all gone and the few left can show a Blu-Ray DVD directly to screen without using a film copy.
The defects on screen you are noticing is a combination of cheap equipment, poor lighting and lack of skill by the videographer. Transfer to film is not a factor in this case, if the transfer were done correctly you would notice almost no difference between the master disk and the film copy.
RandomPrecision
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Posted - Dec 24 2012 : 8:29PM
My guess would be that digital is simply easier to work with. Editing digital only costs as much as it costs to pay someone to do it. Film is a physical medium. And I'd guess it's only getting more expensive.
ninja1
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Posted - Dec 24 2012 : 8:50PM
I question the "xfer to film" part of the original post; I don't think there is any film involved, at any part of the process. Shooting to editing to authoring to mastering to duplication (or whatever the steps are) is all computers/digital, every step of the way. AFAIK.
zambi
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Posted - Dec 25 2012 : 12:13AM
^ Yes what I mean by xfer to film is that it looks like they shot the scene with a camcorder with that live video look like you see on TV news and then digitally converted it to something that "looks like film" kinda like the movies cable TV used to show during the 90s, not high quality hollywood movie type film.
For example, most of the gonzo companies used to all have that live video look. Now they all seem to be going for this film look. And like someone above said the quality varies a lot. I'm pretty sure that look doesn't come directly from the camera used by comes from post-production. And like someone above said bad lighting is often the most notably problem. The resolution looks reduced also.
 
Rod
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Posted - Dec 25 2012 : 7:36AM
What makes you think anyone does this? I've never heard of this. The closest anyone would come to this is to shoot in 24fps rather than 30fps to give the video a film look. The color issues you're seeing are likely poor lighting issues.



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