What's Wrong With this Picture?

[VideoTechMan]

Hey everyone, I captured a still frame from this movie and I want to see if anyone notices a problem in this pic:


This was taken from the 2-DVD set i bought from a local video store a few weeks ago, 'The Ten Commandments', one of my favorite movies. I just wanted to see if anyone notice any kind of flaw in the movie above and give some feedback. Thanks

VideoTechMan

[MpegEncoder]

Maybe you could be a little more specific. If you're talking about his arm it shouldn't be to surprising considering how the special effects where done that long ago.

[DivXExpert]

The picture quality looks horrible. maybe thats just the JPEG compression.

[vhelp]

@ VideoTechMan

yeah, MpegEncoder's right. That was done LONG ago, when technoledgy
was quite poor to begin with. It could also be tained (by your store) or it
could possibly have ben edited for DVD (if dvd) to fix some things as best
as possible. That partial arm is a mess though.

But, if you noticed some of the blue areas, that was probably a poorly done
blue screen edit or something like that.

Hay, but you should be having the need pause a movie just to find a few
flaws though. Just sit back and enjoy it. You have to realize that back in
those days.. yada yada yada..

I guess in some way or another, that was the first "blue screen of death" hehe..
-vhelp

[VideoTechMan]

The picture quality looks horrible. maybe thats just the JPEG compression.

Yeah ur right there.....the pic was in excellent quality when i capped it and then reducing it to jpeg format lost some quality there, so that was expected. I used the 'Capture Frame' on the PowerDVD software to capture the frame....course it made a huge 1.3MB BMP file, so i had to then use Photoshop to reduce it to JPEG and under 50Kb. So i expectd the quality loss during that process. But knowing that i can cap pics that way can make alot of Windows wallpaper for the background.

It could also be tained (by your store) or it
could possibly have ben edited for DVD (if dvd) to fix some things as best
as possible.

Nope the movie was not tampered with from the store i bought it from, since it had the factory shrink-wrap and everything. The rest of the movie was perfect, so it was just as enjoyable. Mainly though I had wanted to see if anyone else noticed the arm and everything. Obviously the keying from the bluescreen could have been a bit better based on observation. But since its virtually unnoticable while watching the movie its no biggie..lol.

I guess I am beginning to have a more detailed eye when it comes to video now....I dont know if this flaw is in the VHS version, but it could be a possibility that that flaw appeared during the remastering of the movie to DVD. Esp for a movie made in the 1950's.

VideoTechMan

[SHS]

VideoTechMan there nothing you can do it not a flaw but what you seeing old style overlay use back in thoses days.

[VideoTechMan]

Oh I know SHS...i dont intend to do anything about the flaw, just mainly taking note for observation purposes. For most home viewers something like that they wont notice anyway, but for a professional they would notice it. But yeah, with the technology and techniques they used in the old days is vastly different compared to what we have now. Ain't video great?

VideoTechMan