Shot "in HD" doesn't really mean anything beyond "wasn't shot with a crappy camcorder"
film resolution is a lot higher (depending on grain level) than Blu-Ray or HD-DVD, and digital equipment used for filmmaking has been that sort of level and up from day one. imagine how horrible NTSC res footage would look on a cinema scale projector. ugh. On 19 Mar 2010, at 09:32, Winterlight wrote: > So it is real, as good as if it were shot HD? It is not just some kind of > rendering? > > At 02:30 AM 3/19/2010, you wrote: >> Movies shot on film are simply rescanned frame by frame at a higher >> resolution, just about anything shot digitally is shot at a minimum of >> 1920x1080 (Phantom Menace was shot at that res as I recall) >> >> And of course, anything CG can be arbitrarily rerendered at whatever >> resolution is desired. >> >> That was the plan for Babylon 5, except someone lost the mesh/texture/scene >> files to rerender it in lightwave :/ >> >> On 19 Mar 2010, at 09:22, Winterlight wrote: >> >> > Here is something I don't get. How can they take a movie, like the Lord of >> > the Rings, before HD and blue-ray were in use and then turn it into a >> > blu-ray movie. Don't you need special HD cameras to make a HD movie? >> > >
