Standard-definition & Hi-definition film capture of 16mm film (2)

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Film Date
12/21/67
Film Reference Number
TV-4
Description
This clip offers a comparison in relative picture sizes between Standard-definition (SD) film capture at 720x480 pixel resolution and Hi-definition (HD) film capture at 1836x1377 pixel resolution. The same KPIX-TV 16mm positive reversal news footage from December 22nd 1971 was used for this demonstration featuring sequences from the premiere of Dirty Harry in San Francisco. The SD capture was done in 2009 by Monaco Labs using a DFT Quadra telecine (native 720x480 pixel resolution) and is located at the bottom left hand of the viewing screen. The HD capture was done by Image Trends Inc. in 2012 using their ScanMaster 4000 scanner (native 4872x3248 pixel resolution rendered down to 1836x1377 pixels). The online screener is an mp4 video compression (H.264 codec 2000kbps 768x576 SD) produced in Final Cut Pro 7. Different choices were also made by these film labs for the scene-by-scene color correction and Image Trends used Digital ICE restoration software to remove surface defects from the picture. Monaco's master video output used for editing in Final Cut Pro was a 10-bit uncompressed QuickTime file; Image Trends Inc. outputted to a ProRes 422 HQ video file. See part 1 for a split-screen comparison between these SD & HD captures with the SD capture blown up to the same size as the HD capture: https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/208517
Format
16mm newsfilm