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Skyfall Trailer

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Seriously, how does Roger Deakins not have an Oscar by now?


Enjoy.

And on a side note, it says on IMDB that the Red Epic was used in the production. Anyone have any confirmation on this?

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/technical
 
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I heard some VFX shots were done on the Epic as well as some 2nd Unit stuff. Second Unit DP/Aerials Adam Dale shot Jack and the Giant Killer 2nd Unit and Prometheus 2nd Unit on the Epic. :thumbsup:
 
Bond looks badass on digital, too. I know they went with Alexa Studio (ana?) but at this point this would've looked just the same if shot on Epic (maybe with a bit of HDRx used in the bright sky shots). I've seen enough Epic and Alexa footage to believe that you can match these two beautifully (just don't forget to scale 5K down to 3K, ehhehe).
 
But why youtube and why such a poor quality encode? Apple trailers generally look so much better....

Graeme
 
That's the same encode as the YouTube one with the low vertical resolution (looks like upscaled) and masses of aliasing and terrible compression artifacts. What's the point of releasing a trailer in such a sub-standard way?

Graeme
 
Graeme Nattress said:
That's the same encode as the YouTube one with the low vertical resolution (looks like upscaled) and masses of aliasing and terrible compression artifacts. What's the point of releasing a trailer in such a sub-standard way?

Graeme
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To get it out to the masses and spread the word, build hype and recoup their money back and make some money while they are at it.
Same reason you can watch films on a plane with a crappy LCD screen. = make money
 
I'm just comparing/contrasting with the quality of trailers I've seen recently - even the compression I can understand, but the low-to-high resolution upsample to fake 1080p is just ludicrous. I guess I'm an image quality snob.

Graeme
 
Graeme Nattress said:
That's the same encode as the YouTube one with the low vertical resolution (looks like upscaled) and masses of aliasing and terrible compression artifacts. What's the point of releasing a trailer in such a sub-standard way?

Graeme
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the 1080p quicktimes look slightly better to me, but maybe I'm just tired and my eyes cannot tell the difference.
Hopefully a better encode wil appear on the Apple trailers website soon.
 
Hopefully - I really want to see what it's looks like!

Graeme
 
The 1080p version is up at Apple and it looks stunning. I know that Arri does not get much love over here but I must say that the footage coming out of that new Alexa Studio is superb. I am not sure how much of a difference that spinning shutter makes but it looks fantastic to my eyes. What do you guys think?

Link: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/skyfall/
 
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