At 08:38 PM 8/26/2000 -0500, you wrote:
I am guessing that the Stella volumes are not going to be put on DVD anytime
soon? I got to thinking about this after I ordered Volume I, I have heard
that the average life of a VHS tape is about 7 years. I am hardcore enough
about this that I will want to view these tapes far into the future.
It's too expensive right now. If I did put it on DVD I'd want it to be a
hybrid DVD/DVD-ROM so I can put all sorts of multimedia and random access
stuff in there. I am aware that VHS is on its last legs but I think it
will be some time before independent video producers can economically
switch over to it. I'm also wondering what the future of DVD will be when
HDTV finally arrives. Or maybe something will come down the pike that is
uncompressed or lossless compressed rather than the fairly heavy 5:1
compression of DVD. I am sick to death of orphaned video formats.
Also, I'd definitely go back and re-edit it for DVD rather than just
digitizing the master tapes. So it wouldn't be the exact same thing. Even
though it took forever to finish, I still didn't do everything I would have
liked with Stella, as far as the fancy transitions and effects and
composites and diagrams and stuff.
The raw tapes are stored on BetaSP. I had the opportunity to shoot in DV
but I chose BetaSP because it's uncompressed (i.e. analog). Plus at the
time DV foramts were so chaotic I didn't want to lock it into an orphaned
tape format. It's amazing how well the tapes have held up even though they
are 3 years old. There aren't too many dropouts in there, although the few
I do see drive me insane.
It should eventually get bumped to an uncompressed digital format down the
road.
Glenn Saunders - Producer - Cyberpunks Entertainment
Personal homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/1698
Cyberpunks Entertainment: http://cyberpunks.uni.cc
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