Thick or Thin

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When should you use Thick and Thin? What's it for? Thanks
 
in basic terms.. use thin for film out or uprez to HD. it gives you the most image detail and clarity. thick will give you a bit less detail, but resolves the image in such as way that it is suitable for display on regular tvs that might have a problem resolving the minute details that "thin:" mode gives which could cause the TV to flicker or twitter in the high detail areas .. similar to how a moire pattern would.

basically its the setting for how minute/fine the details can be within the image.. if you use thin and have any issues you can always use a slight blur to overcome it though..
 
iamloser said:
i if you use thin and have any issues you can always use a slight blur to overcome it though..
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And that's the reason I always shoot Thin. If you need to blur it later, you can. If you shoot Thick, there's nothing you can do to add the lost detail, should you decide you need it later.
 
But if i want to achieve a softer look ? isnt it better to use thick? or even medium?

i usually like to soften the image when using video because it's too sharp for my taste and have very hard edges. So i lower the detail level ( on a DVX100A to -4) and use a Softfx filter. wouldnt the thick mode be even better?
 
Shooting thin and softening in post may give you more options than initially acquiring a soft image, which cannot be sharpened in post.
 
what program and effect are you using to soften the image?
 
I disagree .

Well, about the "detail level" or the "thick mode" , i cant realy say for sure, but its hard for me to believe that there is a way to achive in post what the "SOFT FX" (or the white-black promist" filters for other example) filter does. a simple gaussian blur or smooth effect is not the same. sorry. the filter has a much more enveloping quality that you cant achieve in post. its one of those optic mysteries i guess.


all in all, besides all that, i prefer shooting the way i like it becuse some directors tend not to go along with me when i want to make the picture softer or more contrasty in post. on the shoot they cant realy tell and at the end t they also like it so every body is happy.

Nadav Hekselman.
 
Thick for DVD delivery...no worries about squiggles or tweetering line.
Thin for film or extensive work in post.
 
Personally I shoot thin for everything. It just gives you so much more to work with, and if you are ever using sqeeeze, you need to use thin. I just don't see why anyone would shoot thick, it just limits what you can do with that footage later.
 
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