Certain scenes (action) were shot on IMAX cameras. It's a mixed shooting process. About 20 minutes of the final move is IMAX footage shot on IMAX cameras.
All that's happening here is they are going back to the source film elements for the blu-ray master instead of making it from a completely 35mm version. Aside from opening the frame for 16:9, this isn't anything that hasn't been done before.
Take the blu-ray and HD-DVD release of Blade Runner. They did the exact same thing. Blade Runner was shot on 35mm and 65mm (for the effects). Instead of doing a restoration of a 35mm print and striking a master from that, they went to the 35mm and 65mm source elements, restored the separately, and made the HD master from those two sources.
Honestly, they are crowing about something that I consider just doing things the right way.
Makes sense to me but I wonder if the aspect will change on the disc. I certainly don't believe the image quality aside from grain will be much better for going to the Imax source since 35mm is still higher than 1080p. But if they have the Imax source they may as well use it I suppose.
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Certain scenes (action) were shot on IMAX cameras. It's a mixed shooting process. About 20 minutes of the final move is IMAX footage shot on IMAX cameras.
All that's happening here is they are going back to the source film elements for the blu-ray master instead of making it from a completely 35mm version. Aside from opening the frame for 16:9, this isn't anything that hasn't been done before.
Take the blu-ray and HD-DVD release of Blade Runner. They did the exact same thing. Blade Runner was shot on 35mm and 65mm (for the effects). Instead of doing a restoration of a 35mm print and striking a master from that, they went to the 35mm and 65mm source elements, restored the separately, and made the HD master from those two sources.
Honestly, they are crowing about something that I consider just doing things the right way.
Makes sense to me but I wonder if the aspect will change on the disc. I certainly don't believe the image quality aside from grain will be much better for going to the Imax source since 35mm is still higher than 1080p. But if they have the Imax source they may as well use it I suppose.
I couldn't agree more.