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-Sandro- · 03-29-2009, 03:52 AM

Hello i'd like to know how much costs to a major to make a blu ray. Let's say we have a 35mm negative. How long does it take to scan every frame and what are the costs? I read that for Seinfeld Sony spent millions, but what exactly costs so much: the frame scanning or the re-editing in hd from the start since was saved in sd video as final master? For a recent movie on 35mm is the cost reduced since they only have to transfer to digital video the final printed film? This makes me guess that every movie ever made and printed already on film would be cheap to transfer on blu ray. I'm interested mainly in some '90s tv shows shot both on 16 and 35mm because they are the most doubtful product to be released, (if the company still has the projects of the editing) if the transfer costs so much this means that the release has to have a lot of powerful interested buyers otherwise we will NEVER see the show in on blu cause the cost wouldn't justify the earnings! In the same time it makes me think that they had to do the same processes to edit the sd version for tv airing and dvd release so the costs should be the 'same', it still came from film and they had to do the film scanning after all. Anyway what did they do with seinfeld? So i can have an idea.

03-29-2009, 03:52 AM	#1
-Sandro- Active Member Member since:Aug 2008 Blu-ray collection:8	How much does it cost? Hello i'd like to know how much costs to a major to make a blu ray. Let's say we have a 35mm negative. How long does it take to scan every frame and what are the costs? I read that for Seinfeld Sony spent millions, but what exactly costs so much: the frame scanning or the re-editing in hd from the start since was saved in sd video as final master? For a recent movie on 35mm is the cost reduced since they only have to transfer to digital video the final printed film? This makes me guess that every movie ever made and printed already on film would be cheap to transfer on blu ray. I'm interested mainly in some '90s tv shows shot both on 16 and 35mm because they are the most doubtful product to be released, (if the company still has the projects of the editing) if the transfer costs so much this means that the release has to have a lot of powerful interested buyers otherwise we will NEVER see the show in on blu cause the cost wouldn't justify the earnings! In the same time it makes me think that they had to do the same processes to edit the sd version for tv airing and dvd release so the costs should be the 'same', it still came from film and they had to do the film scanning after all. Anyway what did they do with seinfeld? So i can have an idea.