Super 8 footage on Neil Young's web site

[maksim]

Scroll to the middle of the page, and there should be an indoor S8 clip already preloaded'n'playing > http://www.neilyoung.com/lgallery/index.html

[jumar]

Are you sure that's Super8 and not video? They'd have to be shooting a really fast stock to get an exposure in that dark gallery. Also, it really looks like video to me.

I know he just shot a Super8 film, but I'm not sure that this is from the film.

[tacotim]

I'm pretty sure this is film, not video. the two things that give it away for me are that the tv's in the shots are strobing, also the footage is a bit shaky, the kind of shake that is usually eliminated by anti shake abilities of todays camcorders. Just my thoughts, if it is S8 it looks pretty good.

-TIm

[maksim]

This is obviously a S8 film. The grain, "the feel", the shake, the "strobbing Tv's", the "NO sound"... There's no video that will look this "bad" (or good - depending which angle u look at it:). Plus we know that Neil Young is crazy 4 the look of S8.

I'm just not sure what particular stock this is?

[Ralph S]

I don't think its super 8. It's 16x9 widescreen. And any super 8 film that could be shot in low light like this would be very grainy. I think it is probably super 16 because of the widescreen, the shaking and with super 16 you could shoot higher speed film without the grain. If it is video its 24p. 30fps video would have a black bar across the screen but no strobing.

[maksim]

"Widescreen" means nothing. Anyone who has Final Cut Pro can put "16x9 widescreen" effect "filter". It takes all of two seconds to do it + the rendering time.

[Ralph S]

Yeah, it might be cropped to 16x9 in FCP which would explain the black bars at top and bottom. Maybe it is super 8?

It's definitely film. There's a hair on the gate in one scene, almost at the end - with the red painting. Top left corner. And some dust and 1 scratch.[/img]