| brendude13 said: So IMAX is expensive, but many recent films have still used it right and would benefit from being remastered at 4k? What would the horizontal resolution be of a film from the 60's and a film from the 00's, complete with the soundtrack? You said it wouldn't come close to 3840, but wouldn't anything over 3000, still closer to 4k than 1080p, still be worth the remaster? As for films degrading over time, how easy is it to restore them? After seeing how great the Bond films looked in 1080p, I assumed that anything from the 80's or later wouldn't have suffered enough for it not to be worth remastering in 4k. Sorry for all the questions, I don't know much about film. EDIT: I see why you mentioned Super 35 and posted those pictures because the soundtrack is missing on that one. |
no many recent films are upscaled to IMAX.. they have a new technique for that.. a few films like the Dark Knight Rises are actually also shot with IMAX Cameras..
Well depending on the aspect ratio it determines the horizontal resolution: let's take widescreen as an example
on a newer 35mm with 4000 lines the aspect ratio and soundtrack will give you a screen resolution of ~3100 lines so 3k..
the newer 35mm with finer grain (better detail, more lines) are from the 1980.
So a pre 1980 film with around 3000 lines using the widescreen aspect ration would be around ~2400 lines.. so closer to 2k..
a 4K scan can capture more stuff then a 2K scan, but it isn't really necessary cause as you can see there isn't actually that more information on the original film.. the danger here is that the movie gets upscaled to 4K it can give you actually a worse image quality then 2K..
Last month we had HD commercial, 1080p, upscaled to 4K for use in cinema... which didn't go to wel cause the colors and image blurred out...
So with a 35mm the same will happen but less drastic then my HD commercial.. upscaling film is never a good thing..
As for films degrading over time, how easy is it to restore them? well you can't restore them when you scan them... now the trick is to find the best copy out there with the least wear, scratches, dust, light exposure, etc.. all of that effect the quality.. you can only clean the 35mm but not repair scratches, burn marks, light exposure.. most of the time the 1st master film will have wear and tear because of the process making copies of it.. that's why some movies take a long time to have a blu ray version.. finding source material they can scan in can be difficult.. the older the movie, how harder it gets.. after they film is scanned they can make digitally repairs.. but not everything..
I do think 4K is the future, with 4K videocamera's but it will take time...
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