Posted by Vincent at spider-wl061.proxy.aol.com on October 21, 1999 at 13:04:29:
In Reply to: So am I a boner... posted by Pedro on October 20, 1999 at 20:35:29:
: : Be aware that the digital footage will NOT match the film footage at
all- if you're going for this type of stylistic contrast, then good.
: ...if I say that I couldn't tell right away which scenes in The Phantom
Menace were shot digitally, and which were shot on film? It was only after
I read about those scenes, and then went back and looked more carefully,
that I saw a real difference. So am I just not on the ball here?
You're talking about the difference between High-Defintion Pro Digital
(used in THE PHANTOM MENACE) and consumer NTSC Digital (which is what the
poster above is asking about)- that's not unlike the difference between a
DVD and a ratty VHS tape.
High-Def has the approximate resolution of Super-16 film, and since ALL of
PHANTOM MENACE was scanned from film to digital at 2K resolution (HD
resolution) then outputted back to film after being processed to death, in
the end there wasn't much of a difference between the HD material and
material that was originated on film