Terminator 2 3D

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The painstaking 3D restoration process took almost a year, according to Distrib Films’ official website. Cameron’s company Lightstorm Entertainment, whose filmography began with T2 and also includes Titanic and Avatar, oversaw the project from start to finish. Cameron’s team restored the original 35mm cut frame-by-frame to 4K quality. Stereo D (The Fate of the Furious, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) then converted the 4K version of the film to 3D.

Source: http://screenrant.com/terminator-2-3d-trailer-arnold-schwarzenegger/
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Normally not interested in 3D but the combo of 4K and 3D for T2 could be worth a watch..
 
What's painstaking about converting film to any resolution when it is analogue? Surely converting to 4k should be as difficult as 1080p, providing their scanners have the required dpi.
 
D3K said:
What's painstaking about converting film to any resolution when it is analogue? Surely converting to 4k should be as difficult as 1080p, providing their scanners have the required dpi.
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Film has to go through a restoration process after being scanned to correct any issues such as film scratches on a frame by frame basis. When you scan at 4K any issues are more apparent. The scans are also uncompressed, so you're talking about 32MB of data per frame, so about 46GB of data per minute for 4K vs around 11GB for HD.
 
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It'll never have the gravitas that the original showing had on the big screen. The film was just a sum of all parts of the time, Arnie, Guns and Roses, all on an epic scale.

Id imagine terminators in 3d will look the business. Definitely looking forward to seeing it, though I wish Cameron had gone a step further and gone all virtual reality. Those that have played raw data, know how terrifying a life size terminator just is a foot away from you.
 
hyperseven said:
That's why movie studios no longer invest money to produce them, oh wait....:rolleyes:
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That's why they pay companies after the event to convert. The result is good enough and it costs not-a lot in comparison to money earned in some territories (eg China loves 3d).

D3K said:
What's painstaking about converting film to any resolution when it is analogue? Surely converting to 4k should be as difficult as 1080p, providing their scanners have the required dpi.
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Presumably redoing all the vfx might take some work at that resolution?
 
Cameron has already go on board saying 3D no longer appeals to people like before, especially in the living room environment compared to the cinema, but still thinks it works well in cinema.

Further explained in this video:

 
this iteration of 3D is winding down, Avatar 2 will herald the next stage, which is glasses-free. The tech is now fully realised and ready to go. Looks incredible.
 
What a waste... First Titanic, now Terminator?
Why doesn't Cameron just do Aliens in 3D and give us what we really want!!


Minstadave said:
Things nobody cares about - 3D movies.
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Who are you calling a nobody??!! :p

I love 3D movies, VR and all that stuff!

Part of the problem is that people ignore the basic fundamentals of making and presenting a 3D film, that have not changed since the 1950s. I can pick holes in the techniques and technical aspects of even recent ones like Avatar and The Hobbit, because despite having "the latest, newest innovative technology", they still ignore the science behind it all.

Another part is that people don't want to wear lenses of any kind, which is just the nature of the beat until the next gen stuff reaches us....

Will21st said:
this iteration of 3D is winding down, Avatar 2 will herald the next stage, which is glasses-free. The tech is now fully realised and ready to go. Looks incredible.
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I understand it's been ready to go for about a decade, now, with Sony's alternating colour frequency tech being the leader... but that it was ridiculously expensive. Have they resolved this problem, now, or are cinema tickets going to double in price again?
 
If you all watch the second video he explains his reasons rather well.

Also, I wouldn't say this is a complete waste on T2... The film is considered one of the best scifi action films of all time. Even if the benefit out of this is just to see T2 come away with a new 4k scan from the process, then I think it hasn't been wasteful.
 
Secret_Window said:
If you all watch the second video he explains his reasons rather well.
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Can't see videos from here.

Secret_Window said:
Also, I wouldn't say this is a complete waste on T2... The film is considered one of the best scifi action films of all time.
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It may well be, but it also suffers from Wesley Crusher syndrome with baby John Connor written to appeal to the younger audience...
 
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