Hi
The movies which i see on my TV from an HD channel(e.g. Z Cinema HD) shows it with padding(black bars above and below the picture)... Sorry.. You might already knew that. Other english HD channels like Star Movies HD, PIX HD etc. don't use it. I just can't understand why is it used? I mean to say i have a 48" TV and when i am in the mood of watching movies, i see them on a small screenIs the thing behind this is that the movie itself has been recorded as that( but even our mobile phones record HD videos in fullscreen/ no padding) or does it depend on the channel which is broadcasting(to cut the cost...)?
One more question. I haven't watched Blu-Ray movies but i wanna know do they have padding or not? I am asking this because internet downloaded movies say they are Full HD(1920*1080) but in reality, it is like 1920*800 or something like this. They say BRRip but have the padding.. I just can't understand why?
Thanks and regards
Dev
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Many movies are in 2:35:1 or wider. They should have padding at top and bottom.
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Black bars are used to maintain AR (Aspect Ratio). No all material is 16:9 (the format of your TV).
This applies to ALL video, whether it is broadcast, DVD, or BluRay.
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it is really simple
cinema is NOT 16:9
the broadcaster/streamer has a choice , cut off the sides (each end) of the picture to make the width correct and fill the screen
or they can keep the full width and add black space"padding" top an bottom inside the frame, so the transmission is 16:9
you have a 2.35:1 video inside a 16:9 frame
when you DL a video, you get something the creator cropped off the top and bottom black space that was in the produced DVD which was 1080 with the black padding "in the frame" , the only reason they do it , is too make a smaller file size
the PC player will play it, it still does not fill the screen top and bottom unless it was made for TV at 16:9
PS: its usually referred to as BordersLast edited by theewizard; 10th Aug 2015 at 13:56.
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Because they want to show you the entire picture. You should be pleased when a television station shows you the complete movie rather than hacking off the sides just so it fills the screen.
One more question. I haven't watched Blu-Ray movies but i wanna know do they have padding or not? -
OK, class, the problem for today:
The top image is a 2.35:1 movie frame. The bottom image is a 16:9 display frame.
Your assignment is to format the 2.35:1 image inside the 16:9 frame so that no part of the original image is lost. Note: you're not allowed to distort the image by squishing it.
Solution used by most consumers: hit the tv zoom control and lose almost half the image.
Solution by users who appreciate movies the way they were created: live with letterboxing.
Solution by a few well-heeled users: Buy a super-wide TV, wider than 16:9 (they do exist). Only problem with that: 16:9 TV shows will have black pillars on each side.Last edited by LMotlow; 10th Aug 2015 at 17:00.
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Do they still teach geometry in primary school? It's not a big problem in Oz as TV stations have been showing original AR for years even back in analog 4:3 days. But not always.
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The problem here in the US, is that a majority of consumers want the image to fill the entire screen, regardless of what is done to the image to make it fit. It's more important to fill the screen than to actually see the entire movie as it was filmed and intended to be seen.
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And for that I would put the blame squarely on the television networks that have fed us panned-and-scanned versions of films since the beginning of television. As far as I know, in the US only the cable channel Turner Classic Movies is providing films in their original aspect ratio. Unlike in Europe and Australia where viewers got used to black bars very early, in the US people got used to the idea that something was wrong when they saw black bars on television, and that movies and television shows were supposed to fill the entire screen. The legacy of 60 or so years of ignorant US television executives is ignorant US television viewers. As a result, we get people here all the time asking how to get rid of black bars.
The fact that devvaibhav is from India means the same problem exists there and Zee TV is to be commended for broadcasting their movies the way they were meant to be seen. -
i'm gong on memory
but there were times when the network would broadcast in letter box format
also i don't think pan & scan is Not correct term for what was done before digital back in the 50s and 60s analog days
for a major motion picture, they did a specail copy with a traveling mat
each frame was moved left or right, centered to show the most action or detail
so you did not have off screen cast members during speaking or action scencs
yes many networks and stations showed old black and white straight up telecine on the spot in the studio with out the effort of the traveling mat
but pan & scan as it exist now di not exist then
i had a pan $ scan mode on a previos TV, it looked terrible stretching and squishing the edges of the frame as the scene shifted left or right
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@theewizard, you may want to refresh your memory.
Pan & Scan HAS existed since TVs started showing movies in the 50's (and that's what it has been called the whole time). At various times it has been done optically (analog), then electronically (analog), but now is done almost exclusively digitally. The methods are basically the same, regardless.
Pan & Scan has always had difficulty with retaining on-screen cast during wide action shots, hence the term (as a method to partially compensate for the problem).
BTW, "traveling matte" does not refer to what you speak of, that has to do with Greenscreen/Bluescreen overlay technique. What you describe is more like a "floating window".
P&S is used for transfers much less these days, as many modern film-based features have been shot with soft mattes (which can be uncropped for FS transfer), though thought must have been taken to prevent window violations with booms, lights, etc.
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As it was originally intended? As it was created?
Talk to the hand.
Each to their own, but I think an image generally looks bigger when it fills the screen. That possibly has something to do with it being errrr....... bigger..... but it requires a player or TV with a zoom function that'll zoom without stretching. You lose some of the image off the sides, but it looks more cinematic to me, because it's errr..... bigger.... unless you happen to have a 150" TV. -
Yes.
As it was created?
...but I think an image generally looks bigger when it fills the screen.
...unless you happen to have a 150" TV.
I know, it's not that important and no one, neither me nor you, was asked for their stand on the issue. But devvaibhav came here asking about it as if it was some sort of a mistake on Zee TV's part. And it's definitely no error. My only complaint about Zee TV is the godawful logo they put on everything. -
I wonder how many cinematographers get to decide on the aspect ratio of a movie they're working on? When James Cameron was making that horrible Avatar movie, I wonder if he said to the cinematographer, "Hey, you pick the aspect ratio. Surprise me!" Although didn't that one screen in 1.78 for 3D and 2.35 for 2D, or was it 1.78 for IMAX 3D and 2.35 for everything else, or maybe 1.33 for IMAX 3D, 1.78 for other 3D and 2.35 for 2D.....
Could it be possible the director mightn't always get to pick the aspect ratio either? From the director of one of the world's most famous widescreen movies, when commenting on the widescreen format:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur_%281959_film%29#Cinematography
"Nothing is out of the picture, and you can't fill it. You either have a lot of empty space, or you have two people talking and a flock of others surrounding them who have nothing to do with the scene. Your eye just wanders out of curiosity."
I've got at least a few DVDs where the picture aspect ratio is narrower than the "intended" aspect ratio, not because there's picture missing from the sides, but because there's more picture top and bottom. I hadn't given it any thought until comparing them, but I was kind of miffed when I compared the Bluray version of T2 with the DVD version and discovered the Bluray version had more picture cropped top and bottom.
I know home theater is a relatively new concept compared to movie making, but given 16:9 is the aspect ratio of by far the majority of home theater TV screens, I'm fairly sure a pretty good example of arrogance these days would be filming a movie without framing it so that it can be viewed in a 16:9 aspect ratio. -
Odd. There should be no difference. You can see comparison shots here: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdcompare/term2.htm
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James Cameron deliberately shoots full aperture 35mm and extracts different portions of the frame, and different aspect ratios, depending on the intended viewing environment, so 4:3 for old TVs (no longer used), 16:9 for widescreen tv viewing (See the differences in 3D and 2D Titanic for good examples) 2.35:1 for "normal" theatrical (the aspect ratio fanboys howl is correct for Titanic and T2 specifically) and 2.20:1 for 70mm blowup -- also mostly obsolete.
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I'm curious now as I went looking for screenshots myself and couldn't find any evidence they're dramatically different. Only where they're just framed a little differently, like this. http://www.originalprop.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/terminator2-comp-sdhd-01.jpg
Maybe only the PAL DVD had a slightly different aspect ratio but I distinctly remember it that way. Unfortunately I don't have the DVD disc here any more.... I'm pretty sure I gave it to my sister.... but I might have an encoded version burned to disc somewhere. I'll have a look later.
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