Sounds like he should just pay to have his reels telecined himself. It’s a little pricy but maybe less stressful and they’ll return the masters. Think we paid like USD$0.50/Ft last time we digitized some 16mm we shot.
Assuming these were 16mm prints (IIRC old school TV used 16), a 48 minute episode would be 1728 feet, so about $864 USD for a 4K ProRes scan.
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