[Frameworks] 16mm --> HD --> 16mm

[Pip Chodorov]

Hi Jodie,
I had problems too - on my feature documentary, the sync drifted in 
FCP for no apparent reason, and we had a lot of tweaking to do in 
Cinema Tools. I was told that this is the fault of FCP which does not 
handle 2K very well, but I was assured by experts that if I had done 
it in Avid I would have had no problem. But you may save a headache 
and make an SD transfer, cut and print the film neg and simply HD 
telecine your answer print.
I had a similar problem on a 12-minute 16mm film that my friend 
insisted on cutting digitally and timing to a precise sound track on 
FCP. We cut the work print to conform to the video, threw it up on 
the steenbeck with the digital track synced on ProTools (steenbeck 
and mac are hardwired to stay in sync), but the cues did not line up. 
So we made a mag track, tweaked the cut to lock exactly, cut the neg 
accordingly and printed from that. In that case however her video 
edit can still serve as a master.
In both cases we got the final result we wanted and it didn't cost 
extra, but I think we wasted three times as much time.
Sorry to disappoint, but film is physical, frame for frame, locked to 
the sound, nothing can go wrong.
-Pip