ABSTRACT
Successful technique in the telecine is the effective organization of physical materials and human resources, coupled with the skilled use of technical equipment to produce the agreed upon results. A variation of the transfer of blue screen process shots is the creation of the composite image, or a separate black-and-white high-contrast video, directly in the telecine using a color video matte system. The advantage of this method is that both the colorimetry from the telecine and the adjustment of the matte processor can be optimized while viewing the composite image. Certainly there is ample capability to move beyond the "standard" transfer and to use the telecine controls to achieve superior results. New color corrector/processors provide the ability to modify and even interchange colors with spectacular results. In practical use, one finds that many of the telecine controls interact with one another and that a series of increasingly fine adjustments back and forth is necessary to achieve the desired result.
