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Douglas Trumbull's 'Showscan' fprmat shot and projected 70mm film at 60 fps. The huge cost kept it from succeeding, though the visual impact was supposed to be
by totalforge 16y ago
Douglas Trumbull's 'Showscan' fprmat shot and projected 70mm film at 60 fps. The huge cost kept it from succeeding, though the visual impact was supposed to be amazing.
Cameron's proposal will introduce similar perceptual problems to HD video - fake stuff will look more fake, every tiny detail of a performer's face will be apparent, and scenes that play a certain way at 24fps might fall flat at 60. One study showed that physical comedy was funnier in low res/low frame rate, and the same action looked painful to the audience in greater definition and detail.
I'll watch a good story in any format, thanks.
- leejoramo 16y agoWasn't Showscan also projected with more lumens? A quick search didn't reveal this, but I am sure I remember that Showscan was much brighter.
- joezydeco 16y agoIf you're ramping up the shutter speed on the projector, you gotta compensate with more light coming through.
- FiddlerClamp 16y agoI saw one of those 'ride movies' in Las Vegas that had been shot in Showscan, and can't say I noticed much of a difference -- the seats were shaking and vibrating and careening though, so it may not have been the best test. Trumbull's research found that 60fps somehow resonated the most with the brain -- no slower, no faster.