Hollywood Confronts the Digital Revolution --McIlroy

Ah yes, been there, done that.

The most touching paragraph in the article concerns that old bugaboo, resolution. Gosh, they should have dropped by the IPA technical conferences for the last 20 years if they wanted to find out more than they could ever digest about that subject! The article informs that "film normally has a resolution of about 4K (4,100 pixels across by 3,000 deep). Most post-production houses convert that film into a computer file by scanning it at a resolution of 2K (2,048 pixels wide by 1,556 deep)." Eeek, half as much (actually, much less than that, but obviously no one is really counting). The article continues "the lost resolution can't be regained when the file is converted back into film."