• JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Surely even a lossless compression is incredibly smaller. (But you can’t truly losslessly convert from film to digital, only commenting on uncompressed 1080p.)

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      1 year ago

      However, let’s not forget the whole thing was created digitally then “printed” to film, so there was never a “film original”.

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        1 year ago

        He uses the camera negative as much as possible and avoids CGI as much as possible so a lot of film hasn’t been digitised and reprinted it’s from the actual source.

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            1 year ago

            Christopher Nolan is famously one of the few big Hollywood directors who still shoots much of his footage on actual film, specifically in IMAX.