There are indications that the
Lakshya DVD could be very good.
The film is currently in post
production with digital color
grading off a digital intermediate.
There will be a HD version and
the DVD is made from it.
The DVD is coming from the
producers themselves. No dubious
lab is making a transfer from a
release print a la Eros... Keep
your fingers crossed.

I hope it is not DIGITALLY COLOR GRADED like KHAKEE etc..

I have my TOES crossed too, MHAFNER

How do you mean?

All we can do is to HOPE!

Was Khakee digitally color graded? I haven't seen it yet! But if it was I don't see it as a bad thing or how it can contribute to a bad transfer. In essence digital color grading is the same thing as color correction which allows for color continuity and luminance uniformly throughout a scene. If the colorist is skillful enough you can get sharper images where a subject can standout and not blend into the background! If this should come through as MHafner reports we are knocking on the door of Hollywood quality!

I think it was? most likely, If my memory works???? SEARCH for KHAKEE THREADS/POSTS!

Here you go!

Digital intermediate is yet another new phenomenon in Indian films. Digital intermediate is a stage in the film-making process flow, where all shot material is stored and made available digitally. Prasad EFX, Asia’s first integrated Digital Film Lab, applied this process to a recent film, ’Khakee’. According to the cinematographer of the film K V Anand, “the potential of the digital intermediate process is visible in the film in the form of colours, mood, and overall ambience.”

Internationally quite popular, digital intermediate technology was even used in the Oscar-nominated film ‘Lord of the Rings’. What does this technology do? Mainly, it offers creative freedom, say industry experts. Among other things, it was used for skin tone enhancements, selective defocussing, isolation and control of individual colours, in ’Khakee’.

The process of digitalisation is explained by Prasad EFX CEO Sai Prasad, “A film is shot traditionally, and then digitised to data. The data inside computer systems then goes through colour grading, effects, digital opticals, editing. With final auto assembly, it records back to film and then gets printed.” The final negative that comes out of Prasad EFX after the digital intermediate stage is quite different from that shot by the cinematographer.

Prasad EFX is a post-production services group with offices across India, Singapore and Middle-East.


http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=52191

Don't even think that the DIGITAL DATA PRINT will be used to make the DVD. DIGITAL DATA is used to get the film print. DVD will come out of the Film Print as always, as that's all the distributors have access to or know of.

If the producers themselves get the DVD out, then there is a chance of Digital data print being used to make the DVD. But, Indian Film Producers never associate themselves with the DVD making.

Rana

As I said the DVD is made from the
HD which is made from the DI.
I might have more on this later on.
The producer is doing the DVD in
this case.

Where was DAMN Producer SLEEPING? when DCH was CRAPPED?

That's a good news. In that case, this sure will be World Class DVD, I hope.

Rana

the best example of a digitally colour graded film is still Qayamat.

Thnx Man!! I think it was QAYAMAT not KHAKEE!!

viewtopic.php?t=5726&highlight=qayamat

KHAKEE was DIGITALLY EARTH TONE ENHANCED I guess????

Go to
http://www.arri.com/infodown/htm/nindex.htm
and read the April 2004 pdf. It's
about Lakshya.
I will talk to the supervisor of
the DVD shortly and try to get
them avoid the usual pitfalls.