It's so much fun to see this now. I was the Technicolor Control Supervisor in Hollywood where my job was to manage the film to digital transition in the early 2000's. I calibrated those lasers every day to get multiple iterations on a film stock. Every time the studio changed to a new film stock (different emulsion) we had to recalibrate those lasers before production. Awesome video. Glad to see someone is still interested in film and I still believe film is better looking. We at Technicolor had a great idea of making separations (asset protections) on the ARRI recorders and low and behold they all got into the game. My first job was recombining old acetate separation and recombine them into a new OCN. Fun days in the studios.

Dune and The Batman did this process witch were shot by DP Greig Fraser. It really dose look good on the big screen especially on Arri Alexa LF footage combined with vintage lenses! Great video!

The greatest technological achievements are the hybrid of digital and analog. Beautiful machine.

I love how they used this process on DUNE. The grain really suited the dry desert setting. Great video, thanks for sharing!😀

Thank you for that piece of documentation!

Great video. I love that you are able to show us the behind the scenes workings of this technique with first hand interviews. I’ve only read about the digital to film technique prior to this.

Interesting process! Now let's hope that whoever maintains the 35mm master source also takes care of the building so that there isn't a fire or flood!

Love this process 👌

Good work, I loved it! This is probably the most expensive "film look preset" on the market. :)

Impressive machine....

is that whats meant when you see "Recorded using an ARRI Digital Film Recorder" in a fully animated movie like Kung fu panda 2?

Thanks for the video, always been fascinated by the laser film recorders! Did they have any CRT based recorders like a Celco? Did you capture any video on the contact printer?

One thing about 35mm film that's better is that the colors are usually deeper, sometimes it needs correcting but usually it looks so much more deep, blacks and blues and reds and greens all just seem more... cinematic and nice.

very clever stuff

Very interesting. Thank you. We hated video when it first appeared - but TV producers would swear blind that it looked better than film - and there was no arguing with them at that time. (Cameraman retd.)

Now I want to produce a short film and have it mastered on Ferrania P30.

whoa i didn't even know this was a thing

Amazing, there's a similiar option for Super 8 film thought very few labs offer it

I need this so i can take my 1980s camcorder footage and print it into 4k film

I don't know if they'd do it, but I think it would be cool to print some home movies to 16mm.

I was doing the consumer version of this with DVD decrypter, remove the Macrovision, record it on a VHS recorder, then digitize it back and burn a DVD..

I don't have any 35mm. Will it do 8mm, super 8 or 16mm?

Science is cool!!

Do you know of anyone who takes digital photos and prints it to negative stock like this but for still photography?

35mm-65mm wipes the floor with digital.

this seems like so much work when you could have just shot it on film to begin with