Good info from Yahoo thread:
"Here's some more info about the biz and LPAC that you may not know:
an average MOW shot on film will generate close to 20 days worth of shooting. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Each day of shooting is one day in Telecine. An MOW will also generate the usual amount of offline editing for 2-3 weeks, one online edit (assembly) session, one color timing session and subsequent dubbing. Dubbing occurs on Telecine masters as well as edited/color timed masters.
Offline editing may or may not occur at LPAC's facilities and may or may not use LPAC equipment.
In contrast, a filmed episodic will shoot an average of 5-7 days, each day generating a telecine session and dubs, again there's offline editing, then assembly of EDL (edit decision list) on the delivery medium and color timing. In some cases, there is also sound work involved, however I'm not sure how LPAC's sound division is doing. They got in a little too late in the game to make that one fly properly, although I readily admit, things may have changed since I was last onsite.
If you factor in HDTV, then there's a whole different approach depending on whether or not a show is shot on film and xferred to HD tape or if it is shot in HD (not film) and up/down-converted for all other electronic resolutions. At some point, there will be an assembly of the EDL, and most likely a color timing session. I'm not sure what they do about color timing on HD materials that are delivered to their clients. I would imagine that HD deliveries run through this process as well.
I don't know anything about their DVD effort except that they were working on compression techniques back when "compression" was a dirty word. I do know that they have one of the finest engineering and development teams in town, if not the nation or the world. They will only do something if they can do it right, and at a price that is attractive to their clients, which would still allow them to make money. LPAC pioneered the Electronic Assembly approach back in the 80's and it has done them well. There's a reason as to why they are still in business, and that is their unique model for billing out their services to their clients. LPAC has always had an eye on the future, and by my reckoning, they are generally a large amount of time (years) ahead of their competitors.
Also keep in mind that LPAC has their own film developing lab. No one else in town does. This provides them certain and specific advantages over their competitors, particularly in the areas of price and timeliness of dailies deliveries." |
