Thoughts on future film workflow

I can just agree with some thoughts of mikes at fhpd about future film workflow. For me film ist still an excellent material for acquiring images and I won't miss the over 100 years of experience with it. On the other hand I just got a 1TB harddisk in an electronic market nearby for 65 Euros. For me this means, in one or two years everyone can have his own digital lab storage for his movie. So, it's true, why don't change the lab workflow to simply scan the film stock on 16-Bit OpenEXR and create Quicktime or DNxHD proxies for editing? You don't need to handle the film stock anymore. You'll always have full access to your material shot and tune your movie until the last moments before the release. With future improvements in data bandwith, labs would turn into on-demand infrastructure providers, where you can simply dock in your projects.



Read mikes thoughts here.