A Video about... well, Video kinda

Goodness gracious, do you have any idea how many people clicked/commented on that Wham video after watching yours?

Lisa

Re: "Looks like tape" To me, chroma subsampling feels like a big part of "looks like tape". I'm not sure if chroma subsampling is inherent in tape storage. I do think that any chroma subsampling would be a dead giveaway of a digital signal source at some point in the chain. However, since chroma subsampling is used in lots of places (except actual film storage, AFAIK), it's not a very precise indicator. If anyone has an example of chroma subsampling in film storage, I'd be interested to learn more about it.

Joar Wandborg

So what is vidfire? Something that turns film back into a video look?

Arthur Robillard

Love the NeXT shirt. Appropriate, since the cube could handle video...

Doeke Zanstra

My favorite example of Film vs Video in the same production is Alone in The Wilderness. It's available on Amazon. This guy moved out into the Alaskan wilderness, lived there for 30 years. He took his film camera with him and filmed all kinds of stuff, including himself building his cabin. But when the video was produced they cut it together with video shots of animals. Woah, the difference really slaps you in the face. Still Alone in The Wilderness is one of the most relaxing things I've ever watched.

James Sutherland

What they do in the country where they filmed the actual clip: https://youtu.be/6vC_KqP7YgU Merry Christmas!

MrHammond

Possibly the best example of this is the 2016 BBC documentary “Zoo Quest in Colour”. Originally shot in the mid 50s and broadcast in atrocious monochrome, the original 16mm colour film was recently found in the archives in excellent condition. They made a new documentary about it showing off it’s amazing full hd colour capabilities. Just google “bbc zoo quest in colour” and fingers crossed you’ll find an edition you can see from outside the UK. The downsides? They edited put the scene where Sir David enjoys a turtle egg omelette! Now only to be seen in the original.

Gavin Rea-Davies

When they scanned "Baraka" for Blu-ray they scanned the 70mm Todd-AO negatives at 8K. It's still one of the most gorgeous things I've watched.

Chris Crowther

I enjoy watching Seinfeld in syndication now in HD on big screen. Possible to pick out the cereal box brands in Jerry’s kitchen clearly now.

David Roberts

Awesome video. In the U.K., seemed like “outside” was on 16mm film until around the late 80s. The contrast between smooth PAL video and 16mm was stark, even on the small TVs of the time.

David Roberts

That Monty Python bit blew my mind!

Marcin Wichary

TNG's SFX shots were all mastered on tape, iirc. They had to redo them all for the Blu-ray releases. I think TOS had a similar problem, in that while the model shots were on film, it was only 8mm. The main footage was 35mm though.

Chris Crowther

Map far, that’s two videos with bloopers of putting the emphAsis on the wrong syllAble. I dig it.

Sean Hearrell

Dude you're awesome. I'm loving the fact you're releasing videos more often.

Matheus Bitencourt

Have you watched the Filmmaker IQ YouTube channel? The host has a couple of videos discussing frame rate and gave you a shoutout on one of them. I half expected to see you wearing one of his "Living Life at 24 Frames per Second" T-shirts one of these days. Seeing a 4k transfer of something shot years ago on film is still kind of amazing. It's similar to when you see an early color photo of something from the "Black & White" era. An unfortunate side effect of transferring TV shows shot on film to a higher definition video is when you see things that weren't meant to be seen because the images would only ever be seen on 480i TVs. For example, an episode of Twilight Zone in which someone had telekinetic powers and moved household objects around at will. With a modern transfer, you can see the wires connected to the props being moved around, something that would be unnoticed on TVs of the time. Still, a worthwhile trade-off I'd say.

Mark Hesse

Thank you, I learned a lot from this video!

JockeTF

OMG, goats! I love goats!

Project A118

Y’know, if you’re not careful, by the time the CED episode is released someone else is going to come out with a better video, and all that effort will be for naught.

Tom Gidden

With Regard to TV format, you may find with shows made for export, they were most likely archived in PAL format due it have more lines for the same video, this would be apparent for the Voyager footage. As I do recall a friend mentioning that film and tv studios that made shows and movies for export worked in the higher resolution PAL format and then downgraded it to NTSC, as PAL 60 was a format used in NTSC regions to permit easier conversion from PAL to NTSC.

Paul Fisher

I've interpreted it as "cine" like cinema but honestly either one of us could be right

Technology Connections

Tele-sin-ee? I always read it as Tele-seen. Huh.. Check out the Murder She Wrote transfer.. incredible quality for a show I'll never watch.

*waits for the great frame rate debate to start*

Vanessa Koch-Gensiorek