Re: [ProgSoc] Film and PCs (was: physical to electronic)

[jedd@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au]

 Raz writes :

> Rest assured, if you saw VHS grade material (or even full PAL) in a
> cinema for which you'd purchased a ticket, you'd care rather a lot.

 I enjoyed the Castle so much, I purchased two tickets.

 On a cultural note, I recall it being touted at the time as likely
 to encourage more of that style (of production) of movie being made.
 I haven't noticed any great trend, though.

 On a technical note - someone mentioned that at 4000x2000*? came out
 to something like a CD's worth of data per second of film - which
 implied it was infeasible to work with it (in the context of non-linear
 editing), but now it's being stated that film actually *is* manipulated
 digitally.  Does this mean they work on only a few seconds of film at
 a time, and/or just how big are the machines that they do this kind of
 thing on?  (Terminator II, Jurassic Park style films, I mean.)  I'd
 always assumed that kind of work would be intense, tedious,
 intensely-tedious .. 

 Jedd.

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