Combining 4:3 ratio with 16:9 ratio footage

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 12:36 am

the Black Monarch wrote: As you can see, the difference is really not that noticeable.

Like hell it isn't. You just killed the whole point of widescreen video.

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 4:22 am

Dude, the "whole point" of widescreen video was originally to reduce the construction costs of movie theaters

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 5:28 am

Wha?

Wide-screen was put out mainly to show off what movies had over TVs. You can see more of the action. Not to mention that humans have wider horizontal than verticle fields of vision...

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 7:28 pm

Which makes absolutely no sense when you consider that movie screens casme before TV, and "seeing more of the action" is completely dependent on camera angle.

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 9:02 pm

the Black Monarch wrote:Which makes absolutely no sense when you consider that movie screens casme before TV

Except for the fact that they were 4:3 until the fifties.
But you're right, if you don't know anything about film it wouldn't make sense.

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 3:28 am

Klinky is right on this one.

Although widescreen film formats were experimented with in the early years of cinema (to get around Eddison's patent on 35mm) it wasn't until post-ww2 that the industry saw a growing need to show that cinemas had something that TVs didn't. When Cinerama (a three-camera technique) was used at great expense it caused a great demand for a new film type.

Fox developed CinemaScope and Paramount developed VistaVision... the rest of the industry waited to see which was most popular, the cinema chains had to convert at great expense but got large profits with the new system. Everyone then accepted CinemaScope, for the obvious reasons that it was a widescreen format that could also contain a soundtrack on the film.

(then you get IMAX in the 60s)

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:36 am

So when did Panavision enter into the equation?

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 12:42 pm

Scintilla wrote:So when did Panavision enter into the equation?

Panavision came right after the popularity of CinemaScope. There are various reasons for its development which I can't be bothered to go into here

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 11:18 am

I still fail to see the point of widescreen as long as cameras have Zoom functions...

)v(ajin Koji · Post by **)v(ajin Koji** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:30 pm

the Black Monarch wrote:I still fail to see the point of widescreen as long as cameras have Zoom functions...

WELL DONE!