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Posted by P Pron on 11/11/05 11:10
Walter Traprock wrote:
|| Note that it is standard practice when preparing full screen
|| transfers of soft matted films to ZOOM within the full frame,
|| thus losing substantial parts of the left and right sides of the
|| theatrical presentation; there being no truly full frame
|| transfer. Now, how often, or, is it also standard, to prepare
|| widescreen versions for home video that were ALREADY prepared
|| as full screen versions for TV/video, thus actually cropping
|| all four sides for a correct aspect ratio but zoomed widescreen
|| picture? The vast majority of films from the mid-1950s to the
|| mid-1990s are soft-matted, and first transfered for TV/video without
|| any interest in retaining the widescreen theatrical ratio, and the
|| world of film transfering is so secretive; IS IT SAFE to assume
|| that no new
|| transfer is generally made at all, and older movies are simply
|| the ZOOMED IN un-matted frame and then further cropped to make
|| the resulting widescreen versions that are widescreen but
|| reduced on all four sides from the theatrical version?
I believe it _has_ happened in the past, with a very few titles, but it has
never been standard operating procedure. I'd guess that with people getting
more picky about picture quality and more aware of aspect ratios, it is even
less likely to happen now. It is too easy for it to be exposed, and the
information publicised.
The only time you're likely to encounter it is with some Academy format
(1.37:1) transfers, where occasionally companies are a bit over-enthusiastic
in their "windowboxing", and trim off a few millimetres more than is
strictly necessary to get a clean edge to the picture.
paul
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