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Can you do an 8K remaster of a movie shot in 4K digital? With film you can just rescan the negative with a higher resolution.
by drexlspivey 4y ago
Can you do an 8K remaster of a movie shot in 4K digital? With film you can just rescan the negative with a higher resolution.
- royjacobs 4y agoThis will not magically make extra detail appear, though. Film does not have infinite resolution. For instance, the ARRISCAN film scanner goes up to 6k for 35mm. They could go higher, but there's no point.
- masurus 4y agoYes? There's a ton of AI upscales coming out and they're becoming really good; plenty examples on youtube including iconic scenes from iconic movies. Perhaps another 12 months max before AI upscales go from enthusiast/amateur remaster community to commercial.
- drexlspivey 4y agoHaving an AI generate 75% of the movie pixels that weren’t there in the original work doesn’t really count as a ‘remaster’ imo
- lmm 4y agoIt's what most of those "HD remasters" of film are doing. (Well, sometimes it's a human or a chemical/mechanical process rather than an "AI", but either way you're fabricating details out of noise and/or thin air).
- tshaddox 4y agoI suspect that getting objective improvements from a 4K to 8K film scan would require extremely well-produced film and probably a large-format film like 70mm.