Are cinemas now showing films in HD

[Structaural]

Apple overhyping their technology! I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!

No, wait, thats not the word, it's um, oh yeah, non plussed.

Interesting piece. I would like to add it's not entirely factual accurate. Thom Noble cut the Hudsucker Proxy, and several other editors have cut Coen Brother films, despite what they claim.

Interesting.

Yup. Not to sound arrogant but I'm a feature assistant editor.

Then you probably know what you're talking about. I used to help run a 35mm 4k digital film imaging studio but that was about 14-15 years ago (and we did far more slides than footage), god it was boring.

It's just that I can edit a full 3 hours of lossless D1 PAL footage on my old Pentium using around 90 gigs of harddrive space so you'd think a modern film studio could run a fully lossless feature film at 4k on proprietary software - a 16Tb RAID would do the storage job no?

No I'm not, and I'm fairly technically savvy, and really like FCP's color kit, but high end feature film colourists, frankly they talk in a language I just do not understand, never mind technology I could use.

I can imagine, I'm a photoshop retoucher by trade but I find Color's interface pretty daunting let alone Da Vinci.

 

[Crispy]

I thought Curves in photoshop was complicated enough

 

[8den]

Interesting.

They have also built up the personality of their fictitious film editor Roderick Jaynes, a great deal. He's given interviews, and apparently has the world's largest collection of oil paintings of Margaret Thatcher. Nude.

Then you probably know what you're talking about. I used to help run a 35mm 4k digital film imaging studio but that was about 14-15 years ago (and we did far more slides than footage), god it was boring.

It's just that I can edit a full 3 hours of lossless D1 PAL footage on my old Pentium using around 90 gigs of harddrive space so you'd think a modern film studio could run a fully lossless feature film at 4k on proprietary software - a 16Tb RAID would do the storage job no?

For starts working in native HD is incredibly new. The New Harry Potter is one of the first featrues working at 23.97fps, and it's sorting out it's kinks as it goes along.

The second thing is storage space. I was on a working title feature last summer and it wasn't unusual for us to receive 40,000 feet of a film. A day. It really does mount up.

A far more effective and easier method is to dub the film onto both HD and SD (usually HD cam and Digibeta), and load the rushes in off Digi. When it comes to a preview screening, conform in just the material in the cut off the HD Cams and screen off that.

 

[Structaural]

I thought Curves in photoshop was complicated enough

init but check this baby:

http://www.dv.com/dv/magazine/2007/September/color0907_1.jpg

 

[Structaural]

They have also built up the personality of their fictitious film editor Roderick Jaynes, a great deal. He's given interviews, and apparently has the world's largest collection of oil paintings of Margaret Thatcher. Nude.

hehe - that's the two of them isn't it?

For starts working in native HD is incredibly new. The New Harry Potter is one of the first featrues working at 23.97fps, and it's sorting out it's kinks as it goes along.

The second thing is storage space. I was on a working title feature last summer and it wasn't unusual for us to receive 40,000 feet of a film. A day. It really does mount up.

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That's a lot of film! Okay I'm probably not appreciating the sheer amount of footage to go through. What about Lucas, does he use proxies or is editing the actual HD? Sometimes it looks like he's using Premier Pro

A far more effective and easier method is to dub the film onto both HD and SD (usually HD cam and Digibeta), and load the rushes in off Digi. When it comes to a preview screening, conform in just the material in the cut off the HD Cams and screen off that.

I think I understood most of that. cheers.

 

[8den]

hehe - that's the two of them isn't it?

Two is two too many!

That's a lot of film! Okay I'm probably not appreciating the sheer amount of footage to go through. What about Lucas, does he use proxies or is editing the actual HD? Sometimes it looks like he's using Premier Pro

Lucasfilm actually invented one of the earliest NLE (non linear editing) systems back in 1984 Edit Droid it used Laserdisc, although he never used it himself.

As to what he was working on during the Prequels, I haven't a clue, and every time I google it, I get badly distracted.

 

[Crispy]

According to that wiki link, the editdroid was use on Young Indiana Jones. Sounds like a cool system, would love to see one working

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

i think a lot of the editing is done with the rushes and low quality digital on final cut to get an EDL that is then taken and used to make the proper cuts

 

[shagnasty]

I imagine seeing some twenties chaplain films that have been restored even films of that time will come up much better on hdtv

 

[8den]

I imagine seeing some twenties chaplain films that have been restored even films of that time will come up much better on hdtv

Eh. No.