How does 24p (A) footage look on big screen

Big ScareCrow

Big ScareCrow

Well-known member
Does anyone have any experience on the image quality of 24p A footage shown on a full size theater screen. I've heard both - through the right digital projector it call look good and sharp and then I've heard it looses it's detail being blown up. Any experience on the issue, please let me know.
 
Lots of films have been shot on the DVX in 24pA mode and blown up and shown theatrically. Some have gone on to get Oscar nominations, one won "best cinematography" at Sundance. It all depends on your original cinematography and on who does the transfer and how good they are, but it can look great.
 
You mean digital projection? It looks the same (but bigger) than it does on your monitor; there's no special magic that happens in a film transfer or whatever that can't also happen in digital.

November, Iraq In Fragments, The Aristocrats, Murderball, Spellbound, 9 Songs, and many other films were sourced on a DVX100 in 24p mode and had theatrical releases.
 
we projected to theater screen from dvd and i thought it looked very good. i was quite surprised.
 
Barry_Green said:
You mean digital projection? It looks the same (but bigger) than it does on your monitor; there's no special magic that happens in a film transfer or whatever that can't also happen in digital.
Click to expand...

I don't know about that. Digital projection is a real crapshoot. Gridlines, weak blacks, posterization, smearing, and other artifacts, depending on the projector. Transfer it to film, and it's a continuous image that will at least preserve whatever tonal range you have. A film print is going to look better than 99% of the digital projection out there.

So, to the original question, it can look good, but try to test the projection in the theater to be used with the projector to be used, so you're not disappointed on the big night.
 
Well, yes, it does of course depend on the projector and how it's calibrated. You're right to point that out.

Film transfer is just as iffy; it all depends on who does the transfer, how good they are, what type of process they use, etc. Film projection is more standardized, certainly -- not perfect, but much more standardized.
 
We shot something for the 48 hour film festival here in LA with a 100B and it looked decent - kind of like a big TV set.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top