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Think about what you're missing (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 59 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

It's so strange to me that they can't just shrink the picture down to show everything, like 😫 noooooo we have to use the whole screen!!!

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  • [–] 41 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    It's partly because people would complain the other way if they only used half the cinema screen to display the full IMAX image. I'm not gonna do the maths, but I think Odyssey being 1.43:1 ratio would leave about half the screen blanked out on the sides.

    But mostly because it's the main selling point of IMAX films is there's more image than a standard ratio. That more is supposed to be mostly in your peripheral vision rather than where you're focused, directors aren't really putting anything important in these extremities of the image.

    So to pillarbox that image would just dramatically shrink the bit of the screen the viewer should be focusing on, on an already smaller screen.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    main selling point of IMAX films is there's *more* image than a standard ratio.

    This helped me get it, I never considered imax because of the price so I never thought about what it even meant

    Image max / maximum image

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    I'm not gonna do the maths

    Let me help you out there, since I need something to help me procrastinate anyways lol

    being 1.43:1 ratio would leave about half the screen blanked out on the sides.

    I was curious to find out what this came out to as well. Turns out though, on a 16:9 screen, scaling a full 1.43:1 frame to fit only results in side bars that each take up less than 10% of the image, (less than what I was suspecting to be honest).

    While a ~20% size reduction isn't ideal, so is watching a movie that was composed for a different aspect ratio. IMHO, people should have the choice to watch in whatever way best appeals to their needs. We used to do this on DVDs where you could opt for either the widescreen or fullscreen version of the movie, so there's definitely precedent for it.

    Unfortunately, the option for the 1.43 version of many of these movies can't be found outside of their IMAX run in theaters. (At least not officially...)

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    FWIW, 16:9 is mostly used for wide-screen TV content (about 1.85:1), the effect is more pronounced because cinema screens are typically 2.39:1 with most content being that ratio

    That's why you still get letterboxes watching films on TV a lot of the time, despite us all having widescreens now

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    So when they release Odyssey for home viewing on streaming or however it gets released, do they pillar box it? Or they pan and scan edit it?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Home releases will almost certainly get the non-IMAX, 2.39:1 crop they've already cut for standard cinemas, and it'll get the standard cinema letterboxing you see for other theatrical releases if you watch on a 16:9 TV.

    Pan and scan has thankfully died off as a practice

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    I guess I should have said crop rather than pan and scan. But I assume it’s still not a “fixed” crop in that they might change the crop area based on scene or shot?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I guess it's likely they're doing some amount of that, yeah. However I believe the way directors typically approach IMAX is to still centre the shot the way you would without the extra vertical frame, so a centred crop would usually be the best option.

    I'd find it hard to believe that they never take the opportunity to shift things a bit if it would make it better anyway

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