For years now as many of you know, we've been doing a lot of the Telecine work here in Detroit. There's still one Post house that has a decent HD telecine, and for many years I've been transferring a majority of the Thunderbean stuff on that machine, along with the 'special' discs.
In recent times it's becoming clear that since there's less and less of this type of work done locally, it's hard to say if the Telecine, an expensive machine to maintain, will stay. One of the recent comments made was that the company will no longer support it should it go down and require repair. This means I've now been given notice that the time to keep transferring may be limited, since it's hard to say if and when that machine won't be available.
Of course, I'll continue to do our 'real' releases, and as it stands, I've been doing more work using a laser graphics 4k scanner (a more modern but also expensive machine). The little 'special' sets I do could never be done that way since the cost of transfer is much higher.
All of that said, I'm debating now doing some more of the special sets at all- but there's still some things I'd like to do, including a print of a feature I've been trying to get rights to for many years, and may still at some point.
I'll be likely listing some of these things soon here, and they may be faster and more furious that usual. I'll also likely ask the forum here what ones you folks are most interested in. That said, perhaps there's a possibility in the cards of a telecine sitting at the office sometime in the near future. Sigh! S