You might want to hold off on suggesting Lucas push digital cameras. I saw Clones on celluloid this evening, and there were many cases where the digital artifacts were bad enough to make it look like a home movie.
The one point that I noticed it most was during the picnic scene, where there are several closeup of both Christensen and Portman. It was so pronounced, that I didn't immediately notice how bad the rest of the scene was.
I have yet to see it on a digital projector, but I'll be making the trip back to the theatre to check it out, and see if they're there.
Has anyone else seen this? Has anyone seen artifacts in movies shot in film, then digitally scanned for post production? I can't think of anything myself, and one reason may be that the digital film scanners, combined with the technicians who usually fix up almost every frame by hand, are still of a much higher quality than the best digital cameras that exist today for the movie industry.
While I'm sure that filming all in digital brings down the costs, and is easier for the post-production teams, the quality is still below standard, as far as I'm concerned, for most movies. I'm sure if you looked at Clones frame by frame, you'd see that almost every frame has the digital artifacts, but that the action is moving by too fast, usually, for the eye to see it. However, when the action is slowed down, or there are closeups, the pixelation is obvious.
This works for the action sequences of many movies, but wouldn't work for many movies, including most dramas, where slow camera shots and closeups are necessities.
What does anyone else think? Have they seen these digital problems on a digital projector? What about on film?
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You might want to hold off on suggesting Lucas push digital cameras. I saw Clones on celluloid this evening, and there were many cases where the digital artifacts were bad enough to make it look like a home movie.
The one point that I noticed it most was during the picnic scene, where there are several closeup of both Christensen and Portman. It was so pronounced, that I didn't immediately notice how bad the rest of the scene was.
I have yet to see it on a digital projector, but I'll be making the trip back to the theatre to check it out, and see if they're there.
Has anyone else seen this? Has anyone seen artifacts in movies shot in film, then digitally scanned for post production? I can't think of anything myself, and one reason may be that the digital film scanners, combined with the technicians who usually fix up almost every frame by hand, are still of a much higher quality than the best digital cameras that exist today for the movie industry.
While I'm sure that filming all in digital brings down the costs, and is easier for the post-production teams, the quality is still below standard, as far as I'm concerned, for most movies. I'm sure if you looked at Clones frame by frame, you'd see that almost every frame has the digital artifacts, but that the action is moving by too fast, usually, for the eye to see it. However, when the action is slowed down, or there are closeups, the pixelation is obvious.
This works for the action sequences of many movies, but wouldn't work for many movies, including most dramas, where slow camera shots and closeups are necessities.
What does anyone else think? Have they seen these digital problems on a digital projector? What about on film?