Video Production – Film Finish Chris Hauser was one of the pioneers of the digital film process. In the 1990’s the NYC post production giant “Tape House” formed a division called Tape House Digital Film. It all began with a software engineer Dave Kuttner who wrote some very good algorithms for scaling. Their first film recorders were CRT based and took forever to write data to negative. Later on Tape House purchased an Arri Laser film recorder which greatly reduced the process. As with all good ideas, you need to educate and market to the end-users. Part of Chris’s job with THDF was to write articles and manuals on the video to film process. The following archive is taken from one of the web sites that was given permission to reprint these materials. Tape House is no more, but some of the technical materials are still available. The links within the pages may or may not work but you can always return to this page and access this document. Some of the equipment recommendations are dated, but the technology and theory is all accurate for today. One of the greatest advancements made in the DV world was the introduction of 24fps video cameras. Now a film maker can shoot on video that introduces a 3:2 pull-down that can be removed with software. This allows a 1:1 transfer from video frame to film frame.

The DV To 35mm Technology Guide, Part One : General Overview The DV To 35mm Technology Guide, Part Two : Equipment Specifications & Recommendations The DV To 35mm Technology Guide, Part T hree : Glossary of Terms Acrobat version of the manual: The DV To 35mm Technology Guide