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Color Control DPs on Digital Intermediate

Digital mastering for a feature film still comes at a premium. Facilities estimate that today it can add anywhere from $100,000 to $500,000 to a post budget. As more films go this route, however, people are discovering advantages that could help offset some of that cost and improve the final product demonstrably. In terms of cost, there is the issue of effects shots that would all be scanned, manipulated, and recorded out anyway. When a whole show is digitized as a matter of course, those kinds of costs for specific effects or dissolves are no longer an issue.

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