A Video about... well, Video kinda
I stayed up far later than I should have to bring this video to your eyeballs;
This topic was a bolt from the blue. You may be thinking to yourselves, "I thought CED Part 4 was coming next" and you're right about that! That was the plan! But, when inspiration comes, inspiration must be followed. And so, here is this!
CED Part 4 is, unless I am even more mistaken than I've been in the past, certainly going to be the next video. It may not come until next year (har har) but there's a chance I will have some downtime to finish it earlier than that. I shall keep you posted!
Oh, and I honestly don't know if that flicker warning is even necessary, really. The animation I made for the CRT is pretty intense, though, so I figured better safe than sorry!
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Goodness gracious, do you have any idea how many people clicked/commented on that Wham video after watching yours?
Re: "Looks like tape" To me, chroma subsampling feels like a big part of "looks like tape". I'm not sure if chroma subsampling is inherent in tape storage. I do think that any chroma subsampling would be a dead giveaway of a digital signal source at some point in the chain. However, since chroma subsampling is used in lots of places (except actual film storage, AFAIK), it's not a very precise indicator. If anyone has an example of chroma subsampling in film storage, I'd be interested to learn more about it.
So what is vidfire? Something that turns film back into a video look?
Love the NeXT shirt. Appropriate, since the cube could handle video...
My favorite example of Film vs Video in the same production is Alone in The Wilderness. It's available on Amazon. This guy moved out into the Alaskan wilderness, lived there for 30 years. He took his film camera with him and filmed all kinds of stuff, including himself building his cabin. But when the video was produced they cut it together with video shots of animals. Woah, the difference really slaps you in the face. Still Alone in The Wilderness is one of the most relaxing things I've ever watched.
What they do in the country where they filmed the actual clip: https://youtu.be/6vC_KqP7YgU Merry Christmas!
Possibly the best example of this is the 2016 BBC documentary “Zoo Quest in Colour”. Originally shot in the mid 50s and broadcast in atrocious monochrome, the original 16mm colour film was recently found in the archives in excellent condition. They made a new documentary about it showing off it’s amazing full hd colour capabilities. Just google “bbc zoo quest in colour” and fingers crossed you’ll find an edition you can see from outside the UK. The downsides? They edited put the scene where Sir David enjoys a turtle egg omelette! Now only to be seen in the original.
When they scanned "Baraka" for Blu-ray they scanned the 70mm Todd-AO negatives at 8K. It's still one of the most gorgeous things I've watched.
I enjoy watching Seinfeld in syndication now in HD on big screen. Possible to pick out the cereal box brands in Jerry’s kitchen clearly now.
Awesome video. In the U.K., seemed like “outside” was on 16mm film until around the late 80s. The contrast between smooth PAL video and 16mm was stark, even on the small TVs of the time.
That Monty Python bit blew my mind!
TNG's SFX shots were all mastered on tape, iirc. They had to redo them all for the Blu-ray releases. I think TOS had a similar problem, in that while the model shots were on film, it was only 8mm. The main footage was 35mm though.
Map far, that’s two videos with bloopers of putting the emphAsis on the wrong syllAble. I dig it.
Dude you're awesome. I'm loving the fact you're releasing videos more often.
Have you watched the Filmmaker IQ YouTube channel? The host has a couple of videos discussing frame rate and gave you a shoutout on one of them. I half expected to see you wearing one of his "Living Life at 24 Frames per Second" T-shirts one of these days. Seeing a 4k transfer of something shot years ago on film is still kind of amazing. It's similar to when you see an early color photo of something from the "Black & White" era. An unfortunate side effect of transferring TV shows shot on film to a higher definition video is when you see things that weren't meant to be seen because the images would only ever be seen on 480i TVs. For example, an episode of Twilight Zone in which someone had telekinetic powers and moved household objects around at will. With a modern transfer, you can see the wires connected to the props being moved around, something that would be unnoticed on TVs of the time. Still, a worthwhile trade-off I'd say.
Thank you, I learned a lot from this video!
OMG, goats! I love goats!
Y’know, if you’re not careful, by the time the CED episode is released someone else is going to come out with a better video, and all that effort will be for naught.
Tele-sin-ee? I always read it as Tele-seen. Huh.. Check out the Murder She Wrote transfer.. incredible quality for a show I'll never watch.
I've interpreted it as "cine" like cinema but honestly either one of us could be right