Comments on: Do You Care About Frame Rates? Douglas Trumbull Has A New Short Film He Wants To Show You In 120fps

By: David

David — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:41:00 +0000

But if said revolutionary screen can triple the brightness, wouldn't the cost saved on bulbs be well worth theaters implementing those? (Assuming the same light reflection ratio applies to regularly projected movies at a dimmer bulb capacity.)

By: GARY

GARY — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:59 +0000

Nobody cared about Dolby Surround when it was first introduced- but who would want to go back to mono sound now?

By: GARY

GARY — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:59 +0000

PEOPLE ARE SO BORING. They want the same boring crap they always had and just can't seem to be emotionally moved by anything unless it's some guy running with a football.

By: jack

jack — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:59 +0000

im not a grammar nazi in the slightest but dear lord can someone read over these posts just once before they are posted? so many typos. so many.

By: bohmer

bohmer — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:59 +0000

if he can manage a 3d projection with more light, let him bring it on. the fps thing makes me very curious of seeing something like this. it's trumbull for fuck's sake!

By: LA2000

LA2000 — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:59 +0000

The benefit of high frame rate is "realism" – it gives things a very live look. And that is great if it is appropriate for the project. It is NOT appropriate for most projects, including a fantasy fest like "The Hobbit" where the whole idea is to be transported into a hazy, mythical world that doesn't feel real.

If Trumbull can actually come up with the sort of project that would benefit from a high frame rate, where "realism" and "liveness" are legitimately key to the experience, (something along the lines of "Cloverfield" comes to mind), then he may have something. But if he just shellacs it on something traditional, audiences will just say it looks too real, and that will be the end of that.

There is no reason to write this off all together with blog snark. Trumbull is just creating another tool to tell stories with. Nothing wrong with that.

By: Gustavo H.R.

Gustavo H.R. — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:59 +0000

This is the most condescending piece of writing I've read in years.

Dave and Glass have already chastised the writer, but no one mentioned the ridiculousness of dismissing a sci-fi classic like LOGAN'S RUN as a mere "oddity".

By: Dave Kittredge

Dave Kittredge — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:59 +0000

Trumbull has said that 120 fps would be his chosen frame rate because he can make 60, 48, 30 and 24 fps versions of the movie without any frame interpolation. He's also talked about using different frame rates within the same movie– fast for action, slower for conversation. You should take a look at some of his talks about visual perception (and in particular of his research leading up to the ShowScan 60 fps process he planned to shoot parts of BRAINSTORM in). I believe he knows there is no perceptible difference to the human eye between 60 and 120 fps. This frame rate choice isn't about theaters retrofitting projectors, it's about creating a master that is modifiable in post without interpolating new frames.

So the last lines of your piece? You may want to rethink. Telling Douglas Trumbull to "get a regular camera" sounds, well… it makes you sound like kind of a dolt. Especially since in the THR piece he says specifically the current gen of DLP projectors can run 120 fps (if he projected that way), they simply need to be run off a server and not the current config. So– the projector doesn't change, just the way the data is fed. Does this make more sense?

By: Pierre

Pierre — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:59 +0000

I remember him saying in an interview with Harry Knowles that current projectors are actually capable of 120fps. All they need is a firmware upgrade.

By: Glass

Glass — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:40:59 +0000

Nice job coming off like a film blog jock in this article. "If you care about this nerdy technology shit, I guess here's some details we don't care about but apparently this legend of film technology made some nerdy bullshit, here."