So new tech isn't necessarily better, if the masters aren't good enough. Very interesting insight, into the process...

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Film vs digital, Film actually has a very high resolution up to 8k or more. when you use digital the resolution you record at is all you get.

It seems like this problem will keep happening. We shoot in 4k, we can't upscale to 8k or 16k. We shoot in 16k, we can't convert it to VR. We shoot a movie in VR, we can't add smell or interactivity. We make a fully interactive VR film that engages every sense, but it's still not The Matrix. We create The Matrix, complete with life support system for our physical bodies and reincarnation for our avatar, we forget we're in The Matrix and have to rebuild technology from sticks and stones all the way back to the point where we can create a Matrix within the Matrix. Round and round for all eternity because, oh yeah, I forgot to mention, in the base reality layer we're immortal beings.

So, VTE, at which point does this VIDEO (and yes, it's digital) supposedly answer the supposition of "why some films can never be remastered," despite that: 1. the things you were talking about with lower resolution were remastered anyway, and 2. those aren't films anyway? Then why wouldn't this be more like, "Why some movies probably will never be remastered (because they're already shot and edited in the highest resolution and best storage mediums that anyone in the foreseeable future will care about having a remaster of; but also: never say "never")?

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VTE, why wouldn't those middle-era movies benefit from a remastering that uses the AI-based upscaling that we have now (where the AI "brain" _creates_ additional detail for interpolation of the higher resolution)?

Oh, interesting that they went back to shooting on film for 4K video even though by that time there were already 4K and higher (8K+) video cameras.

How was there supposedly a 2K digital intermediate video from video that's shot only in regular HD?

"Because they were shot entirely on digital cameras." * digital VIDEO cameras

"...HD or 4K..." * "...Regular HD or 4K..." (4K *IS* one of the forms of HD.)

"Sometimes [a film] needs to be restored before it can be scanned..." Not really before it _can_ be scanned, but before they would _like_ to scan it.

"The studio created a new master copy." * "...A new master." (Remember, masters aren't copies of themselves.)

"Generation loss..." * *GAIN*

Here's your first mistake: your fake "comparison" between what you call "video," "digital," and film. Electronic imagery with at least a certain minimum resolution and as a set of a minimum number of frames is video whether it's digital or analog. So your "video vs. digital" doesn't make sense. There's analog video and digital video; not "video vs. digital." So with _digital VIDEO_ you can count the lines too... in both dimensions. Why do you think all these presentations right here on this site are called VIDEOS?

This is where I FINALLY can be OK with my bad eyesight! As a 62 year old man, I can't really tell 4K from 1080p. LOL.

No worries, AI will be able to fill in resolution detail. Further down the line, I expect TV's to be able to do it on the fly too. Maybe in a decade It'll be possible to punch in George Lucas' original vision for the sequel trilogy and see a (hopefully good) AI version of that.

While STILL Standard Definition, DVD absolutely SMOKED home videotape (Beta or VHS) Home videotape was no where close to "Broadcast quality" SD, DVD was. When I first got a DVD player, I could not believe that I was able to tolerate VHS for so long, LOL. I long ago digitized my personal ("home movies") tapes to DVD. The video still looks like crap because they are forever stuck at VHS resolution.

The PT-BR subtitles are amazing, you must've been very through to make the original subtitles. Congratz!

A colleague of mine rescanned the O negs of the original trilogy for the versions of what you see today both in theatrical re-release and HD and UHD video. The original Star Wars negative was thrashed. 20th was not prepared for the film's popularity and was striking new film elements to fulfill the demand for prints as the IP and IN elements were constantly wearing out. The scanning and digital repair process was done at Lowry Digital. Lowry created a process to remove and add back grain and increase the resolution of images without what amounts to adding aperture correction on horizontal and vertical lines as done in the past. The process uses the different information from adjacent frames (the grain in each frame is in a different position) in a shot to augment the resolution of all frames in that shot. 35mm film doesn't always have 4K resolution, particularly opticals. When restoring films in this manner, the disparate elements are brought together by adding back resolution to match and making the grain structure uniform. Lowry was also able to increase the resolution of 35mm film for 70mm 15 perf IMAX film presentations. It was worlds better than a blowup using the photochemical process.

🔥I'm pretty sure the latest Star Wars was filmed using digital cameras just like other modern movies.🤨

Nine Star Wars movies? You are crazy. There only six Star Wars movies.

If you scan a negative at 300 dpi and zoom in you will see the extraordinary power of the technology as a superior presentation and preservation format.

I just entered the world of HDR with a new OLED monitor :) It looks stunning but now I'm cursed by the lack of HDR content! It's mainly new games and shows that have it, it will take time. Great video and thankyou for explaining!

I really appreciate this presenter's delivery style. His choice of intonation really helps make the meaning of the message clear.

Crazy enough, there is not much difference between a 2K and a 4K scan for a majority of 35mm film stocks. It's almost indistinguishable in a lot of cases. I personally analyzed 4K and 2K scans of some negatives for a few Marvel films and that is what I found to be true.

I have Star Wars (1977) on 4K. It astounded me, that after watching that movie for the last 47 years, that I could now see the imperfections of the paintwork on Vader's helmet. Nice Star Wars style. screen wipe edit by the way.

3:00 This is basically how the modern Bible came to be. Except we have copies of copies of copies of copies. Didn’t mean to get off topic.

But what does it mean when video formats refer to 4:2:2 or 4:2:0 or other triplet numbers?

2:50 I *do* remember them that way. The original Star Wars trilogy looked like they were in high resolution when they were shown in theaters. Perhaps the people who don't remember them that way are from the generation that grew up watching those movies on VHS tapes.

3 years ago in December I saw Diehard projected from 70mm film (UK) and the dynamic range in shadows and colours was amazing🎉 and that was a red carpet print, film premiere print only used a few times... So it was very clean and sharp! 2 years ago I went to see diehard projected from 35mm film and it had film tears, splits, and damage...that was a screening print that was shown over and over in 1988 in 1 or more UK cinemas! dynamic range was great but suffered from the overall damage. I also noticed 28days later is available as a 4k bluray when 98% of that film was shot on standard def digital cameras, the end jet 'SOS' scene was shot on film... So having 28 days later blown up to 4k I personally think that should NOT have been done... HD yes... To avoid DVD macro blocking. I used to work for Deluxe digital in London soho as an encoder for DVD mainly for old dr who transfers... And sometimes the BBC would ask us to upscale an old period movie to HD because they didn't want to rescan the original film to HD... It actually went onto bluray... It looked garbage, this was around 2013😐

Some people still think, the old analog times were bad and ugly with bad picture and sound. Makes me laugh again and again. Cinema is great since the 70s, besides the added noise/defects by the repeated usage of the film. People just see what TV/home devices can do.

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Stop all the bad excuses and remaster it already ffs 🤬😡🤬

That was very interesting information! If you welcome constructive criticism, please lose about half of your hand gestures...then consider losing more of them.

35mm is 8k resolution.

Was literally thinking about what format Revenge of the Sith was formed in the other day, and if it was +10bit in depth. Great video.

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Thank-you, Camon, for taking the time (and work) to animate your initial explanation of a slit scan a lá 2001. Another diagram reproduced the shot with a physical recreation, but the <<why>> of why it worked escaped me until now. Cheers!

It can be remastered with software like Topaz Video Enhance. There are clips of Babylon 5 upscaled to HD and this was before the official HD release.

The commonly accepted pronunciation (and the one used since the technology's onset) is "telly seen", not "telly sin eh".

what no comments about his cat in the background?

This problem will always exist, in 100 years people will be like: how come we can't get this movie remastered in VR 30k resolution? I want to watch the movie in 360º duuuuh otherwise whats the point? hahahahaha :p

In my honest opinion, this video could have been much shorter. Like: these movies shot on 35mm = higher resolution than originally scanned. These other movies shot digitally at lower than 4K resolution. So no. End.

I thought most current VFX was rendered at 2K and upscaled? same as Pixar films which are rendered at 2K and then upscaled to 4K in post.

The one sentence version of this 15 minute package? "You can always tell the pioneers. They're the ones with the arrows sticking out of their backs."

You mean 6 films

I'd be curious if the grain size in film and them not lining up 1 to 1 was also a major factor. Imagine copying pixels but every third pixel bleeds half way into the fourth and blends its properties into its own..

Additionally, even if a studio wanted to go through the expense of re-rendering CGI visuals, sometimes the rendering files just aren't available. This is what happened for Babylon5; the computer which contained the original effects data had a fatal hard disk crash. And they'd have had to re-build an Amiga system with a Video Toaster to render them (granted, building a brand new Amiga isn't as difficult as it used to be). And I don't know if Video Toaster could even render to 4K resolution, which would mean having to port the effects data over to newer software/hardware.

The most selfless video ever created. Thank you!!!