[Canceled] Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol (IMAX Recreation)

[PDB]

Here is what the expanding frame looked like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw0UNCkNkMM

Its recreating the expanding frame used in Imax theathers

[tim_p]

Brilliant work PDB! Never say never but I think an official pseudo-IMAX release's chances are fading fast. I say pseudo as, as we all know, no home video release of a 15/70 feature  has presented the proper 1.43:1 aspect ratio. I can understand why but it's disappointing nonetheless!

I don't know if it's too late but I can point you in the right direction for the timing of the expanding frame on the Burj climb. It's in an IMAX marketing piece that Brad Bird did for the film and whilst it's mostly a waste of time, as you'll see, its sole but major highlight is the inclusion of the Burj expansion (in 2.35:1 to 1.43:1 no less!). It starts a little sooner than yours and is pretty much where jeditor suggested. I imagine it was done here to be a smooth transition as the camera pans up Cruise from behind, which is a more vertical-orientated image.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79cIPTELZG8

[PDB]

Thanks, Tim I'll give it a look.

Where I started was a compromise given the information the HDTV had but I'll see if this helps.

[dvdmike]

In other news, jedeitor was nice enough to look at the logo from the frames I couldn't fix (since they were cut out of the Telemundo broadcast) and did a wonderful job removing it. Far better then what I had accomplished. I should of asked him to do the whole thing instead of patching it with another HDTV broadcast

Nooooooo!!! Those 61 frames took me HOURS! I would have died if I had to do more! XD


About the "opening" of the frame. I think it would look very natural if it started expanding when he goes to the window and the lower edge of it "touches" the black bar. The bars could open as the edge goes down.

I don't know if I'm explaining correctly but it looks great in my head!

Wow, didn't realize it took that long. Again, thanks for all the help. The work I had done didn't look a faction as good.

Unfortunately, due to the method I'm using, I only have 126 frames to work with in expanding from 2.35 to 1.77. Its the distance from the 2.35 to 1.77 in Premiere (sounds weird but trust me on that). The current transition is a third of that so I re-built it with the 126 frame transition. That makes the transition smoother and slower but can't extend all the way to the beginning at the window from the first true IMAX frame. I decide to work back from that IMAX frame as far as 126 frames would go:

Amazing catching fire did it better, but it's a shame more films don't do this
Dr strange did however

[johnestan]

Any updates on this project? This is one of my all-time favorite movies, but sadly I did not get to experience it in imax. I really like what you've did with the expanding window sample. I didn't know any movies did that, but I love the effect.

[spoRv]

PDB, I've lost the transition work from OAR to Imax, nice work!

That leads me to think it could be user with the Soft+Open matte hack...

[PDB]

Any updates on this project? This is one of my all-time favorite movies, but sadly I did not get to experience it in imax. I really like what you've did with the expanding window sample. I didn't know any movies did that, but I love the effect.

Um I re-did it about 3 times and was never satisfied completely with the logo remove. That's after improving the HDTV footage greatly which maybe the logo removal more prevalent. So I really need to start over again. Sorry that's why there is a lack of news.

PDB, I've lost the transition work from OAR to Imax, nice work!

That leads me to think it could be user with the Soft+Open matte hack...

Not sure I follow but its ok.

[spoRv]

Just written an article about it: https://fanrestore.com/thread-1608.html

[johnestan]

It stinks the logo is such a big problem. Being in the right bottom corning, the logo is often over the needed imax material. Do you cut and paste blu-ray footage over the logo when the extra imax footage is all above the 2.40:1 blu-ray? And when the imax footage is below the blu-ray, are you trying to manually clip the logos out using a combination of the footage from the two broadcast sources? Sorry for the simple questions. I'm new to this stuff, but I'm interested in the process.

[PDB]

Do you cut and paste blu-ray footage over the logo when the extra imax footage is all above the 2.40:1 blu-ray? And when the imax footage is below the blu-ray, are you trying to manually clip the logos out using a combination of the footage from the two broadcast sources? Sorry for the simple questions. I'm new to this stuff, but I'm interested in the process.

The Blu-ray almost never is over the space the logo occupies in the IMAX/16:9 frame. You can't use the BD as a cover up except maybe 2 shots out of hundreds.