peteym5 Posted November 22, 2020 Report Share Posted November 22, 2020 If you wonder how a movie going all the way back to when humans starting making movies, and it looks like it was filmed with a modern digital camera. There is a reason for that, it is called FILM. It is a chemical analog process that uses light, putting the images onto this paper thin stuff. I came across this video that explains how it works. Shows how stuff recorded onto Video Tape cannot be transferred to modern digital media and expect great results. RickR, Justin and DegasElite 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DegasElite Posted November 22, 2020 Report Share Posted November 22, 2020 Well, how can it? Film uses no scan lines. Video does. The only way to get perfect film quality on video is to eliminate the scan lines. Then, and only then, video quality would have no bounds. That, unfortunately, is years into the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted November 23, 2020 Report Share Posted November 23, 2020 Interestingly, as @atarifan95 pointed out, some film movies have absolutely terrible transfers to DVD and BluRay. Examples are the Disney movies Cinderella and Beauty & The Beast. DegasElite and atarifan95 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteym5 Posted November 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2020 Much of it depends on the quality of the original film or negatives. If those are lost, and only surviving version is film or video tape version, it is lost. It may be possible to enhance the video recording frame by fame to enhance the quality using software. There probably is no way to eliminate scan lines with video, or get away from pixels with digital video. It is better to make pixels and scan lines smaller than what people can perceive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted November 23, 2020 Report Share Posted November 23, 2020 Interestingly, with those Disney films, the VHS versions look BETTER than the digital "new" ones. I don't think the quality of the original film had anything to do with it, as Disney probably has more than one archived film copy that has perfect detail. I think they just messed up in their "enhancement" process. Colors are more vibrant, but details were lost. I won't post links or pictures here, a simple Google search is all you need. One example: In the original film Beauty and the Beast, when the Beast first makes his appearance, they purposely made him dark in shadows. It adds suspense. In the Blu-ray, he's perfectly visible and colored. It ruins the suspense completely and really does make a negative change to an Oscar nominated film! What were they thinking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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