It's interesting that you mention that. A lot of groups are interested in 24p because it makes the video look more like film. That's because you're changing the refresh rate and slowing it down to a film rate of 24 whole frames per second vs a television rate of 60 interlaced fields per second.
Besides frame rate, a way to tell video from film is contrast, and with HD, contrast increases exponentially. It's more like looking out a window at a football game than seeing 35mm shot at a football game and transferred to video. I got to watch football games on HD over the Thanksgiving break, and you can really see every blade of grass. I hadn't considered how television "sets" might have relied on the lack of resolution. If you do a cooking show, for instance, you might have been able to get away with salt on the counter, because it wouldn't show up on the monitors or the tapes, but with HD, the smallest details have to be dealt with, or the end-user is actually going to see it in their homes. -- Bill C. http://ReelSolid.TV --- In [email protected], "Jan / The Faux Press" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a result of what you describe, makeup and set building technology > has shifted. They can't use the old sets with HD. One show I know > tested HD side-by-side with 35mm a number of years back and decided to > stick with 35mm because of those issues. Too much detail would break > the fourth wall given their circumstances - 15-year-old sets. > > Find the wall broken in any case with the makeup (at least the early > makeup) jobs actors got. Very pancake. Very surreal faces. > > It's a choice. > > Jan > > On 12/25/06, Mark Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can confirm the mesmerising power of the 42" plasma. I have enough > > ADD to make the watching of movies I've seen before problematic (even > > ones I like). With few exceptions, I just get fidgety. For the past > > few weeks, I've been watching movies I only have a passing interest > > in, just because, well, holy crap, the lush detail. > > > > I am sort of hoping this is a honeymoon period and I'll get over it, > > before I have to watch every movie in the Michael Bay/Jerry > > Bruckheimer catalogue again, just to see exactly where Nicholas Cage's > > hair ends and "movie magic" begins. > > > > That said, having seen, say, Chris Berman on NFL Primetime in HD, I'm > > not sure I'd want an HD camera pointed at my mug. It's rather > > unforgiving, and unless Dove face-cream are going to make me a lushly > > pampered spokes-bloke, I think it's back to, "he's got a great > > face.... for radio." > > > > If HD cameras were cheaper, and I hadn' t splurged on a big telly, I'd > > buy one... > > > > Mark Day > > > > http://videotheplanet.wordpress.com/ > > http://markdaycomedy.blip.tv/ > > http://www.youtube.com/markdaycomedy > > > > > > > -- > The Faux Press - better than real > http://fauxpress.blogspot.com >
