Has video gone too far? (48fps Hobbit!)

[wado1942]

Yeah, I think just about everything that's digitally color graded looks like video. The funny thing is that stuff that was graded through optical printers still looks like film.

[Will2]

Yeah, I think just about everything that's digitally color graded looks like video.

Obviously the most "film-like" experience is going to be all photochemical which is a very quickly dying art.

Anything that's brought into a computer is digitally graded at some level, either by a colorist or the machine that brings it in.

Sometimes colorists try to hard to minimize some of the things we love about film like grain; however the ones I work with hate to use any grain reduction unless specifically asked for by the client. They are every bit in love with film just like we are. I think more and more those film qualities will be brought out whenever film is actually used just to show some differentiation from digital.