New, high quality digital camera developed for EPISODE III

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Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: LethalWolfe

Originally posted by: apoppin

Who is the "THEY" that trimmed 1-1/2 hours out of EP2? It was Lucas' baby. Maybe he needs a better ccntinuity person and editor as well as a better screen writer instead of "better" digital video..

Easy their trigger... don't start draggin' poor old script girls (aka continuity person) and editors into the blame-fest that rests totally on the shoulders of Lucas. An editor can only work w/what the director gives him. Don't blame Ben Burtt (the editor) because Lucas has the directing skills of a wet paper bag.

Lethal

Actually that's what I'm getting at - it was ALL Lucas. He used to be pretty good . . . how did he disconnect from the audience so badly?

IMO, he started worrying about what new toys he could make and what new effects he could generate then what kind of story he could tell.

 

[LethalWolfe]

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: LethalWolfe

Originally posted by: apoppin

Who is the "THEY" that trimmed 1-1/2 hours out of EP2? It was Lucas' baby. Maybe he needs a better ccntinuity person and editor as well as a better screen writer instead of "better" digital video..

Easy their trigger... don't start draggin' poor old script girls (aka continuity person) and editors into the blame-fest that rests totally on the shoulders of Lucas. An editor can only work w/what the director gives him. Don't blame Ben Burtt (the editor) because Lucas has the directing skills of a wet paper bag.

Lethal

Actually that's what I'm getting at - it was ALL Lucas. He used to be pretty good . . . how did he disconnect from the audience so badly?

D'oh... Sorry, I totally missed the subtlness of yer post. As an editor it was a knee jerk reaction... I'll try to control my murderous impulses better next time.


Lethal

 

[JellyBaby]

He used to be pretty good . . . how did he disconnect from the audience so badly

I believe it happened when he started allowing effects to drive the story and not the other way around. It happened during Jedi but thankfully didn't destroy that movie.

A good example of story driving effects: all jedi sabre fights. You understand the jedi's position, know the backstory and come prepared to enjoy the effects.

A good example of effects driving story: EP2, the "assembly line" effects sequence. All I need say here is "WTF!?". That sequence completely pushed me out of the movie. I actually looked around the theatre to see if anyone was really enjoying that part.

 

[0roo0roo]

Episode II was shot at 1920X1080p, which is slightly higher than film resolution. Now, they did use digital zoom (crop) after the shot was already in the can, which in a few scenes was visible, most noticable when Anakin says "I am a slow learner".

I really didnt see any pixelization at all in Episode II, either on film or on digital (and seeing it on digital was amazing). I dont see why so many people made a big deal about resolution, that was never really a concern. It was always a question of how good the colors and contrast could look being shot directly on digital. Every "blockbuster" nowadays uses digital effects, and the film must be scanned in to digital, then converted back to film for release after the effects are added. So its really quite common for movies to go through the digital to analog conversion for release.

yes they scan in film sometimes now for fx, but they start off with a very high resolution source(film). with eps2 lucas had a cr@ppy low res digital source. they scan film at higher resolutions then that

its all about detail, as you can see with a low res digital camera, detail of stuff like a field of grass is really noticably screwed on low res digital. animated cg characters.. less noticable, cg sets, less noticable.