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Posted by Joshua Zyber on 10/31/06 12:53
"Stan" <srs666@despammed.com> wrote in message
news:87B1h.155955$QZ1.11753@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> This is not necessarily true. I work in a post production lab. We
> handle
> dozens of 35mm features a year. I haven't kept statistics on this but
> I'd
> guess that 75% of flat release prints have hard mattes, and for good
> reasons...like microphones hanging at the top of the frame, partially
> built
> sets, partial CGI. You certainly don't want some projectionist
> deciding
> what part of a frame is to be seen by the audience.
I'm not referring to the release prints. I'm referring to the original
camera negative. The process of hard matting 1.85:1 movies in-camera was
almost entirely phased out a long time ago. The mattes really serve no
useful purpose, whereas shooting fully open matte facilitates an easier
video transfer for "full frame" video masters (still used for television
distribution and quite a few DVDs). If the release prints have hard
mattes, they're probably added after-the-fact.
> Surely there must be some DVDs made from prints with 1.85 hard mattes.
> I'd
> like to see what one of these looks like on my widescreen set.
DVDs are usually mastered from internegative elements, not release
prints. Not all 1.85:1 movies are opened up to 1.78:1, but a great many
are. Warner and Paramount do it as a matter of policy unless the
filmmakers specifically request otherwise (and few do). Sony usually
retains the 1.85:1 ratio with tiny letterbox bars at the top and bottom
of the 16:9 frame.
>> The extra picture information will be cropped off by overscan on most
>> consumer televisions anyway.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but there shouldn't be any need for overscan
> on
> LCD or plasma TVs, should there?
All consumer televisions have some degree of overscan. If you truly used
0% overscan, you'd see all sorts of excess signal crap around the edges
of broadcast TV signals that was meant to be hidden by overscan.
The overscan can usually be adjusted out of digital sets by accessing
the service menus, but you really need to know what you're doing before
deciding to play around in there. Digital front projectors usually have
no overscan (or a user option to turn it on and off).
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