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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 09-14-1999, 03:30 AM:
This has apparently been around for awhile, but I just got wind of it. I'm speaking of FlikFX. For those who have no idea what that is, click on the link below.
http://www.simplecom.net/widefilm/flikfx/default.htm I'm surprised Joe didn't come up with it first! 
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-14-1999, 07:44 PM:
What?! This looks like some new video thingy. Even though I have a DVD player, I am not too impressed by the "technology". I don't know about everyone else, but I see tons of compression artifacts. Laserdiscs don't have as sharp of a picture, but they are overall more pleasing to look at. Of course, nothing beats VHS recorded in the EP or SLP mode! Not even 70mm!
Posted by Art Averett (Member # 367) on 09-15-1999, 03:18 PM:
No thanks. Does not look good at all.
Posted by Rick Long (Member # 213) on 09-15-1999, 09:40 PM:
I think I unintentionally created something similar when I forgot to swing up the anamorphic attachment on a Gaumont Kalee. We called it "Thinemascope".
Posted by Anthony Matarazzo (Member # 63) on 09-16-1999, 06:00 AM:
I think it's terrible. It looks unrealistic and yuck !!!!!. Why bother with something like that when you can see the whole frame in letter box mode - without the image squashed
Posted by David Koegel (Member # 25) on 09-16-1999, 11:59 AM:
Oh my, oh my. That was too much. By the time I finished reading all the text on that website, I was rolling on the floor laughing. Thank goodness the release date confirmed my hopes and dashed my fears. Thanks Brad! -- David
Posted by Paul Konen (Member # 41) on 09-16-1999, 04:20 PM:
This is totally funny. I can't believe that these combined scenes are really what the director wanted. They need to change the direction of the eyes. They are not looking at the subject in the combined frames.