Question about anamorphic process
07-20-06, 04:50 PM
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Question about anamorphic process
I was over at another forum complaining about the new re-release of the Street Fighter II animated movie not being anamorphic and someone responded with "a true anamorhic master does not exist for this movie". I'm not familiar with the whole anamorphic process, but is this a legitimate excuse? Can it not be made anamorphic after the fact?
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Yes, a widescreen movie can be remastered for anamorphic. Maybe it was too expensive for them. Maybe they just wanted to get the product out the door. Maybe this is what they agreed to distribute with the copyright owner. Maybe all or none of that 
Still, a shame.
Still, a shame.
07-20-06, 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Maxflier
I was over at another forum complaining about the new re-release of the Street Fighter II animated movie not being anamorphic and someone responded with "a true anamorhic master does not exist for this movie". I'm not familiar with the whole anamorphic process, but is this a legitimate excuse? Can it not be made anamorphic after the fact?
07-20-06, 06:41 PM
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The R2 release of this movie is also non-anamorphic, so we can presume an existing anamorphic master that could be used for the R1 release does not exist. The Japanese company (not sure who it is) could make one from the original film print or whatever, but they won't randomly do it unless they have plans to rerelease it in R2, and Manga Entertainment almost certainly don't have the materials to do it themselves.
07-21-06, 11:06 AM
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Anamorphic masters didn't exist for pretty much every film before the DVD format came out. They certainly can be created at a later date than the orginial video master, provided film elements still exist.
It all depends on what Manga was willing or able to do in regards to mastering the film.
It all depends on what Manga was willing or able to do in regards to mastering the film.
07-21-06, 04:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Jay G.
Anamorphic masters didn't exist for pretty much every film before the DVD format came out. They certainly can be created at a later date than the orginial video master, provided film elements still exist.
It all depends on what Manga was willing or able to do in regards to mastering the film.
It all depends on what Manga was willing or able to do in regards to mastering the film.
This was a point that really got my blood pressure up in the Star Wars thread, when people thought you couldn't make them anamorphic because they were made before 1997.
07-21-06, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by milo bloom
This was a point that really got my blood pressure up in the Star Wars thread, when people thought you couldn't make them anamorphic because they were made before 1997.
A good site I like to point people to about the differences in filming techniques and transfers is this one:
http://www.modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~leopold/AV/FilmToVideo/
07-21-06, 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Jay G.
The ironic thing about the Star Wars comments is that Star Wars was filmed anamorphically, even though anamorphic filming and anamorphic enhancement for DVDs are two different things.
