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Digital Grading

BGIL also offers the full-blown DI and a HD - DI done on HD. We can transfer footage to HD with a C-Reality or a Spirit and then take it into an FCP HD where we conform it, and do the color correction for an HD [HDCam or D5] master.

The HD route is 30 to 40 percent less expensive, depending on a host of variables. “HD digital intermediate. There is definitely a premium for the 2K. The 2K processes will also take longer. You're dealing with data files that take up a lot of room and the whole thing is a little slower process. Also, when you work in the data file realm you have all the negative information there so when you're color correcting you're starting from point zero. When you're color correcting in the HD world you've already done part of the color correction during the Telecine.

The resulting images from either method are then filmed out using an Film recorder and custom-written look-up tables.