This is one of the reasons why The Lord of The Rings is superior to Harry Potter, because the color grading in theses films are more vibrant and grander that makes it far more exciting than Harry Potter washed out grayish, that makes it look dull and boring.
Really cool interview, I share a lot of his perspectives on psychedelics, mainly how there's not some "other realm" we access but just seeing the normal world from a completely different perspective -- I've always said it's like unhooking your brain and hooking it up to a different computer, or like walking away from a difficult puzzle, and when you come back the answer is just plain and true staring you right in the face.
Linwood G. Dunn expanded the concept in the 1930s by creating an optical printer that eliminated the necessity to create optical effects in the camera, and which was used in King Kong. These first optical printers had to be individually developed by each movie studio.
The problem for a true 4k they need to re scan in 4k the original camera negative , and re render the maya and renderman file in true 4k, the other problem is the sfx where composite with Apple Shake in 2K, it's too much rework.
This one Matrix 2 and 3 and Avalon from mamoru Oshii, was some early digital grade movie i think it was a Quantel system, but the new HDR grade probably use Da Vinci resolve, in the case of lord or the ring it help bring light and color continuity, from shot to shot because it was very difficult to manage so much shots with an analog process.
Which is why if you have a vhs or beta max video of the star wars movies you can see the outlines of the of items with in the background scenes, like spaceships and other objects ,you can see the matt inserts everywhere. :)
So I bet they just took the 2k DI scan and used that for the 4K discs. I just watched them and there’s no way they took the original 35mm negative and used that. The characters looked waxy and the colors looked all wonky and HDR was really bad
I think that the Fellowship of the Ring does benefit from 4K in some ways, albeit it's definitely not a standout disc. The other two films did not impress me with their visuals, if I may be honest.
Just watched these for the first time in 4k and the colours look terrible ! Yellows look GREEN and Highlights look blown out ! Terrible editing in my eyes,
Notice that the film of each of the elements run horizontally rather than vertically, as is typical with 35mm? That's because the elements were filmed in VistaVision.
Nice, I had this shown in my class because in the class we were studying Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, and when I was watching the movie there is a bluescreen shot. The shot is at watch?v=oowcsynjIwc at timestamp 2:07.
Yep, caught that as well. The Star Wars triolgy was shot on 35mm anamorphic. VistaVision is both non-anamorphic (perfect for optical composites) and has more image area, even with top and bottom cropped to (about) 2.39:1. The only drawback is that the final optical composite in VistaVision has to be printed onto 35mm anamorphic to be inserted into the original camera negative edit.
@@truefilm6991 _"The only drawback is that the final optical composite in VistaVision has to be printed onto 35mm anamorphic to be inserted into the original camera negative edit."_ The reasoning behind doing the VFX shots in VistaVision, in addition to the fact that it's non-anamorphic, is that it has higher resolution than something like 35mm Panavision. When you make an optical composite, there will be diminished resolution in the final result owing to generational loss because the composite is literally a copy of each of those elements combined into one. Doing the VFX elements in a higher resolution format compensates for such loss, so the final composite will reasonably match, quality wise, with other assets used in editing. Of course, digital compositing solves a lot of the problems involved with optical compositing.
Personally, I prefer these old fashioened film techniques because they feel more hand made. I want to make movies that use but traditional and computer effects because I don't want to forget about the old school techniques.
