RE: [Algorithms] Realtime telecine or 3:2 pulldown

[Simon F. <sim...@po...>]

rob...@pl... wrote:


> One question: Why?
> 
> People love film because, despite it's low frame rate, each 
> frame is so totally 
> anti-aliased and analogue. Blurred pans, motion smearing, 
> exposure glows.

OT I know but...

Not entirely. Due to physical constraints, the shutter of the camera is only
open for about 1/2 the frame period and so the temporal anti-aliasing is far
from perfect. I suspect that if you could gang together two out-of-phase
cameras (perhaps sharing one lens and using a partially silvered mirror) and
then post process the two reels of film, you would get much better results.
Then again, it's probably a waste of time given the eventual adoption of
digital cameras. <shrug>

Simon
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