I miss 4K

[Peter Arnold]

OK. I'm sitting here in my edit suite with some footage a client gave me a few days ago.
"Can you do me a favor?" he asked me. Silly me answering: "Yes of course"

So I'm stuck in the middle of an edit of 12 hours of some old, ooold material from the 80's and 90's which was recorded back then on VHS and later copied to DVD.
VHS from the 80's looks like ... well ... VHS from the 80's.
But the guy who did the DVD transfer should burn in hell!
He used MPEG-1 358x288 Px as the encoding codec.
That means VHS from the 80's meets MPEG-1 low bitrate quarter SD resolution.

I'm surrounded by the newest stuff.
There are several FullHD monitors and a 10ft silver screen right in front of me.
The sound comes from a 5.1 studio surround mixing system.
The studio is air conditioned

...

MPEG-1 358x288 pixel.

That's around 88(!) times less pixel then 4K and I have two more days to go!


I MISS 4K



Peter

 

[Thomas Koba]

Hehe, nice one. I had a client, who wanted my 4K footage, to be mastered to an analoge Hi8 tape.

 

[Vadim Bobkovsky]

I feel your pain. Even worse in case of godawful 8mm and 16mm scans and transfers, not really even in HD. I know there's more on celluloid, but if you're forced to work with crappy transfer.. ughhhh. Machete kills...

 

[Robert Hart]

I spent three days, shooting, lighting with garage lamps and making sure sound got into the camera for a tropfest a few years back on what was then a half-complete SI2K kit that I was building up. Whilst the camerawork was - let's face it - less than stellar and just the golden side of crap, some of it didn't look too bad. I mean I was reduced to gaffertaping the camera head to a pole stuck in the tripod handle hole for the elevated shots the director wanted because nobody had the ladder needed to get my fat stamp up into the tree level. The actor who had asked me to come in on the task had passed on it. I did not get to know until after I was committed. I was advised the final edit was done by the director on VTS files ripped from a DVD copy of the assembled footage. Something had happened to the original edit which apparently had to be fixed against a deadline. I think he recut it for the youtube upload. For what its worth, here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGRoKPyAUQg It was a sweet story which deserved better treatment than it ultimately received.

 

[Wayne Morellini]

OK. I'm sitting here in my edit suite with some footage a client gave me a few days ago.
"Can you do me a favor?" he asked me. Silly me answering: "Yes of course"

So I'm stuck in the middle of an edit of 12 hours of some old, ooold material from the 80's and 90's which was recorded back then on VHS and later copied to DVD.
VHS from the 80's looks like ... well ... VHS from the 80's.
But the guy who did the DVD transfer should burn in hell!
He used MPEG-1 358x288 Px as the encoding codec.
That means VHS from the 80's meets MPEG-1 low bitrate quarter SD resolution.

I'm surrounded by the newest stuff.
There are several FullHD monitors and a 10ft silver screen right in front of me.
The sound comes from a 5.1 studio surround mixing system.
The studio is air conditioned

...

MPEG-1 358x288 pixel.

That's around 88(!) times less pixel then 4K and I have two more days to go!


I MISS 4K



Peter

I'm waiting for the 16k Sony Holographic technology.

 

[Wayne Morellini]

I'm not joking, they are actually designing it, and 16k is only the base rresolution.