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Author Topic: The First Commercial Digital Presentations Brent Francis Film Handler Posts: 84 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Nov 2008 posted 06-20-2013 02:44 PM                        Worked on release prints for Julia and Julia. Looked like it was shot through a j-cloth, even using the master neg.  |  IP: Logged Pravin Ratnam Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 844 From: Atlanta, GA,USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 06-22-2013 03:19 AM                     Q1: So what percentage of mainstream movies would you guess are digitally shot? DV is thankfully dead and everything is HD and HD cameras do a much better job than the stuff we saw in movies like Once Upon a Time in Mexico. The Dark Knight RIses was film. But most of the new movies seem digitally shot. ALso, the transition to digital projectors seemed to have gone faster than I expected. It looks like almost every major multiplex is all digital now. Q2: What percentage of prints of a typical mainstream release is film? Q3: If you were to guess, what percentage of a typical multiscreen complex will have film projection capabilities? And if they are all digital, will they have a couple of film projectors handy for selected releases?  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 06-22-2013 01:00 PM                     Ignored...again. <sigh>  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 06-24-2013 02:36 PM                     quote: Pravin Ratnam DV is thankfully dead and everything is HD and HD cameras do a much better job than the stuff we saw in movies like Once Upon a Time in Mexico. To be fair the video-sourced footage in Once Upon A Time in Mexico was technically "HD" -shot with a Sony HDW-F900 camera outfitted with Panavision lenses and recorded onto HDCAM. It's similar to the video setup used on Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. IIRC the footage was not full 1920x1080 resolution, but a step between 720p and 1080p resolution. Obviously the newest digital camera systems are doing a far better job. Unfortunately there is no shortage of instances where the video camera systems still reveal their video sourced warts and all within the finished movie product. This will become less of a problem as the cameras, disc storage systems and the cable processes that link them allow greater color bit depths in the captured footage. I don't think we're there yet.  |  IP: Logged Pravin Ratnam Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 844 From: Atlanta, GA,USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 06-24-2013 06:56 PM                     yep, I was actually referring to HD being better than not only DV but also the early HD movies. THat's why I felt filmmakers should have used HD only in indies and disposable type movies early on and transition to HD on the big budget movies only when the technology was ready. By the way, TDK Rises looks FANTASTIC even in home video. A really glowing endorsement of film that can look better than HD sourced material on BluRay for movies. But I do think HD has really improved big time and HD has really been helpful in cable series productions.  |  IP: Logged

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