The early days of 24p

"But 95% of the audience won't notice any difference."

This guy gets it!

(Has gotten it way before I said it everyday.)
 
I was curious how Filmlook fit into all that as that was the company I was familiar with for holding the patents on 24p that were licensed by the various camera manufacturers. I had a variety of projects processed through Filmlook in the early and mid-90's. Towards the end they mentioned a joint patent. Curious about the details on that. Sounds like these folks were focused on a progressive scan camera while Filmlook was oriented towards post-processing 60i footage into an emulation of 24 frame originated material--different approaches to the same end game.
 
I remember Glenn from the days.
We were renting a P+S Mini 35mm setup along with Zeiss Super Speeds back then when I shut down my darkroom.
I honestly don't miss those days.
 
This is an interesting and cool clip, I recall when all of this was going on. Also, how many clips are using Steely Dan Two Against Nature loops? They get points for that in my book, love the Dan.
 
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puredrifting said:
This is an interesting and cool clip, I recall when all of this was going on. Also, how many clips are using Steely Dan Two Against Nature loops? They get points for that in my book, love the Dan.
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I should mention to you then that the first of 3 bunny rabbits I have right now I and my partner named Steely Dan after the band.. and yes, that rabbit actually dances to their music, most interestingly enough to the song "Dirty Work".. part of why we named him that haha.
 
CharlesPapert said:
I was curious how Filmlook fit into all that as that was the company I was familiar with for holding the patents on 24p that were licensed by the various camera manufacturers. I had a variety of projects processed through Filmlook in the early and mid-90's. Towards the end they mentioned a joint patent. Curious about the details on that. Sounds like these folks were focused on a progressive scan camera while Filmlook was oriented towards post-processing 60i footage into an emulation of 24 frame originated material--different approaches to the same end game.
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I remember FilmLook well myself.. I remember having a sample DVD of theirs where one of the big examples was they used their software for the live episode of ER which I believe was shot DigiBeta
 
Mike Krumlauf said:
I should mention to you then that the first of 3 bunny rabbits I have right now I and my partner named Steely Dan after the band.. and yes, that rabbit actually dances to their music, most interestingly enough to the song "Dirty Work".. part of why we named him that haha.
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Rabbit. Steely Dan. Dirty Work. I'm sensing the theme and I agree with it, very apropro ;-)
 
I remember the early Filmlook days on some network shows. I think one of the first was a John Larroquette show(post Night Court). I don't remember the name, but I remember it having this off, not quite video, but definitely not film, look. Obviously things improved as the years went on. I worked on a long running sports documentary series that used Filmlook during our SD/Betacam acquisition days. Then when they switched to HD they switched to originating on 24p video with F900's(plus got rid of one of the aspects of the "signature look" of the original days of the series that we all had grown to hate).
 
puredrifting said:
Aww, he's cool looking. Love his color.
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He's an amazing little guy! So much personality. I think lots of people think rabbits are less than compared to a dog or cat, they are def same tier of pet to have.. very loveable and lots of personality. I have 3.. my biggest one, a flemish giant (google it) name is Agent Dale Cooper after twin peaks.. he likes looking into the viewfinder of my camera i **** you not. haha
 
Run&Gun said:
I remember the early Filmlook days on some network shows. I think one of the first was a John Larroquette show(post Night Court). I don't remember the name, but I remember it having this off, not quite video, but definitely not film, look. Obviously things improved as the years went on. I worked on a long running sports documentary series that used Filmlook during our SD/Betacam acquisition days. Then when they switched to HD they switched to originating on 24p video with F900's(plus got rid of one of the aspects of the "signature look" of the original days of the series that we all had grown to hate).
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I don't know if it's at all the same thing, but I remember seeing an episode of "That's So Raven"...or something of that caliber, with what I assume was a 24p look. It was nasty...very very stuttery compared to what we're used to. Also remember MTV doing some live basketball thing but it was also "filmlooky" ...24pish look, color graded (yes, even though live), crushed blacks, etc. Or maybe some of that was unintentional. It looked like a look, anyway.
 
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