amazing ARRI machine turns digital into motion picture film .... from my visit to Cinelab London

[@edwardf56]

It's so much fun to see this now. I was the Technicolor Control Supervisor in Hollywood where my job was to manage the film to digital transition in the early 2000's. I calibrated those lasers every day to get multiple iterations on a film stock. Every time the studio changed to a new film stock (different emulsion) we had to recalibrate those lasers before production. Awesome video. Glad to see someone is still interested in film and I still believe film is better looking. We at Technicolor had a great idea of making separations (asset protections) on the ARRI recorders and low and behold they all got into the game. My first job was recombining old acetate separation and recombine them into a new OCN. Fun days in the studios.

[@ribsy]

Wow really cool! We need to hear more about your knowledge

[@EpicMindFilms]

Dune and The Batman did this process witch were shot by DP Greig Fraser. It really dose look good on the big screen especially on Arri Alexa LF footage combined with vintage lenses! Great video!

[@ribsy]

Nice! Those were beautiful films

[@AselaArt]

I love how they used this process on DUNE. The grain really suited the dry desert setting. Great video, thanks for sharing!😀

[@ribsy]

yea definitely! great looking movie

[@vers1fier]

The greatest technological achievements are the hybrid of digital and analog. Beautiful machine.

[@ribsy]

Yea it’s a great machine!

[@sneakingelephant]

Great video. I love that you are able to show us the behind the scenes workings of this technique with first hand interviews. I’ve only read about the digital to film technique prior to this.

[@ribsy]

Yea it’s amazing tech. Great info

[@studioavenir6726]

Good work, I loved it! This is probably the most expensive "film look preset" on the market. :)

[@ribsy]

hahah its leagues beyond a preset

[@studioavenir6726]

@@ribsy I was joking, of course. But in a very practical way, it is a preset because some default process is applied to the image (to achieve certain look), isn't it. Anyways, let's leave technicalities. I love your videos, bro, especially these factory tours you shoot. Keep making them, it's great to see the how things get made.

[@badgrafx]

That was fascinating, thanks for showing us that process!

[@SinaFarhat]

Interesting process! Now let's hope that whoever maintains the 35mm master source also takes care of the building so that there isn't a fire or flood!

[@ribsy]

Of course 😃

[@klausmoritzpeitzsch690]

and so that no one builds an underground railway beneath it causing it to collapse. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Archive_of_the_City_of_Cologne#Collapse_of_the_archive_in_2009

[@eliagard3437]

Thank you for that piece of documentation!

[@ribsy]

Thanks for watching

[@andrewelliott4436]

Very interesting. Thank you. We hated video when it first appeared - but TV producers would swear blind that it looked better than film - and there was no arguing with them at that time. (Cameraman retd.)

[@ribsy]

Haha can’t imagine anyone thinking digital looked better! 😂

[@andrewelliott4436]

@@ribsy They weren't looking at the pictures - they were looking at the bottom line - and not understanding that un - disciplined shooting makes for hours of expensive editing.

[@ninjaroo882]

Thanks for the video, always been fascinated by the laser film recorders! Did they have any CRT based recorders like a Celco? Did you capture any video on the contact printer?

[@ribsy]

no clue!

[@sergeantcrow]

Impressive machine....

[@ribsy]

It is indeed

[@Thomasbrownphoto]

Love this process 👌

[@ribsy]

Yes indeed!

[@pacthesir]

One thing about 35mm film that's better is that the colors are usually deeper, sometimes it needs correcting but usually it looks so much more deep, blacks and blues and reds and greens all just seem more... cinematic and nice.

[@ribsy]

Yup yup yup!

[@Ramog1000]

is that whats meant when you see "Recorded using an ARRI Digital Film Recorder" in a fully animated movie like Kung fu panda 2?

[@dcallan812]

very clever stuff

[@ribsy]

Indeed!

[@brentfisher902]

I was doing the consumer version of this with DVD decrypter, remove the Macrovision, record it on a VHS recorder, then digitize it back and burn a DVD..

[@ribsy]

interesting!

[@ale_s45]

Amazing, there's a similiar option for Super 8 film thought very few labs offer it

[@ribsy]

intereting

[@LostJediJC]

whoa i didn't even know this was a thing

[@ribsy]

Yup yup!

[@slashmaster2]

I don't have any 35mm. Will it do 8mm, super 8 or 16mm?

[@ribsy]

I don’t know

[@Threetails]

Now I want to produce a short film and have it mastered on Ferrania P30.

[@ribsy]

Hahaha

[@christopherrodriguez7223]

Science is cool!!

[@ribsy]

Science is great 😊

[@brentfisher902]

The One True Church.

[@dotbmp]

Do you know of anyone who takes digital photos and prints it to negative stock like this but for still photography?

[@ribsy]

I don’t 😅

[@brentfisher902]

Get an SLR camera from the thrift store, a 24 inch or larger Full HD TV, a computer with a graphics program such as Gimp, and a color developing kit and tank. Load the picture on the computer, invert the colors (if you want the resulting image appear positive when you hold it up to the light), and set the camera for f/4 or more open. Then take about a 1/15 of a second shutter speed shot for ISO 400 speed film for each picture, make sure to align the image in the viewfinder. Once you shot the roll, develop it with the color kit.

[@paulohvs85]

Gamma Tech, Albuquerque, NM, USA.

[@ArtyomGalstyan]

For why do they need to do that?

[@MidnightsEdgeAfterDark]

this seems like so much work when you could have just shot it on film to begin with

[@ribsy]

lots of reasons why they produce in digital first

[@arricammarques1955]

35mm-65mm wipes the floor with digital.

[@ribsy]

i think many agree with you

[@randallstewart175]

As the guy explains, if it's shot on digital, the image stays digital. The idea that the enhanced imagining qualities of 65mm film will expand and improve the digital image is beyond stupid. For all of the word salad here, this process manages to combine the best of digital and worst of both technologies onto one film image. I assume this exists because in many parts of the world, movies are still shown from film projection, not the digital projection which has taken over the US.

[@kennyadvocat]

I need this so i can take my 1980s camcorder footage and print it into 4k film

[@ribsy]

LOL