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Author Topic: New digital technology! Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 09-14-1999 03:30 AM                     This has apparently been around for awhile, but I just got wind of it. I'm speaking of FlikFX. For those who have no idea what that is, click on the link below. http://www.simplecom.net/widefilm/flikfx/default.htm I'm surprised Joe didn't come up with it first!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-14-1999 07:44 PM                        What?! This looks like some new video thingy. Even though I have a DVD player, I am not too impressed by the "technology". I don't know about everyone else, but I see tons of compression artifacts. Laserdiscs don't have as sharp of a picture, but they are overall more pleasing to look at. Of course, nothing beats VHS recorded in the EP or SLP mode! Not even 70mm!  |  IP: Logged Art Averett Film Handler Posts: 14 From: Orlando, FL Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-15-1999 03:18 PM                     No thanks. Does not look good at all.  |  IP: Logged Rick Long Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 759 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Registered: Nov 1999 posted 09-15-1999 09:40 PM                     I think I unintentionally created something similar when I forgot to swing up the anamorphic attachment on a Gaumont Kalee. We called it "Thinemascope".  |  IP: Logged Anthony Matarazzo Film Handler Posts: 30 From: Brisbane Australia Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-16-1999 06:00 AM                     I think it's terrible. It looks unrealistic and yuck !!!!!. Why bother with something like that when you can see the whole frame in letter box mode - without the image squashed  |  IP: Logged David Koegel Film Handler Posts: 55 From: Alexandria, VA Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-16-1999 11:59 AM                     Oh my, oh my. That was too much. By the time I finished reading all the text on that website, I was rolling on the floor laughing. Thank goodness the release date confirmed my hopes and dashed my fears. Thanks Brad! -- David  |  IP: Logged Paul Konen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 981 From: Frisco, TX. (North of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-16-1999 04:20 PM                     This is totally funny. I can't believe that these combined scenes are really what the director wanted. They need to change the direction of the eyes. They are not looking at the subject in the combined frames.  |  IP: Logged

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