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Posted by Bill Vermillion on 11/12/05 15:45
In article <ekm8n11u8ic1gadkrq9lpldmgbvpgacbre@4ax.com>,
John Harkness <jharkness@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:38:59 -0800, Walter Traprock
><wetraprock@hotmail.com> 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?
>
>
>It's never safe top assume anything, and it's certainly not safe to
>assume what you're claiming.
>
>I wont' say that it's never happened, but I can't think of any
>widescreen films of that era that I've seen both theatrically and on
>DVD that have been transferreed in the manner you describe.
And I have at least on film where the LD WS tranfer is slightly
wider than the DVD WS transfer. And the color-timing on the DVD
is poor compared to the LD. But the width is close - so you have
to look closely to see the differences.
There are those who will never be happy until they can see the
frame line of the film at the top and the perfs at the side. :-)
And I understand there are a handfull of DVD players that let you zoom out
so you can see what is actually on the disk - as many players tend to
crop a bit internally.
Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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