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1. Ret (ret@furry.engineer)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 07:25:21 JST Ret

   the fuck is the deal with absolutely insane fake film grain in modern movies? I feel like I'm watching on a badly-tuned analogue TV set

   • polprog68k (gorplop@pleroma.m68k.church)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 07:25:21 JST polprog68k

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     @ret "Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided [...]" ~ Brian Eno
   • Ret (ret@furry.engineer)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 07:26:36 JST Ret

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     • polprog68k

     @gorplop never a truer word spoken tbh.

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   • polprog68k (gorplop@pleroma.m68k.church)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 07:29:09 JST polprog68k

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     @ret my pet peeve is all the bad VHS effects. like, you cant just throw a static overlay over a sharp digital video and call it a day
   • polprog68k (gorplop@pleroma.m68k.church)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 07:30:56 JST polprog68k

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     • Teknikal_Domain
     @tek_dmn @ret I was watching a talk by a person who spent 20 years writing open codecs and he mentioned that filmmakers stick to 24 fps because apparently higher framerate was unnatural and too realistic for a film to the viewers. The example given was LOTR trilogy which was shot in a higher framerate.
   • Teknikal_Domain (tek_dmn@mastodon.tekdmn.me)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 07:30:57 JST Teknikal_Domain

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     @ret "Film grain is good"

     Nah hollywood (conceptual) just loves tradition - heck a good number of movies are still shot at 24 FPS because it's "cinematic" (because movie studios preferred the resolution of film over the framerate of tape (read: television) once it came out), and there still are some film-based content delivery options (IMAX for example), so it's likely "until people start complaining we'll just assume they want it because that's how it's always been"

     completely forgetting that even if people do like something you can still fuck it up

   • Ret (ret@furry.engineer)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 07:31:14 JST Ret

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     • polprog68k

     @gorplop yeah VHS is a very complicated set of effects that, when faked badly, look awful. If you want proper VHS effect, record it onto a VHS and capture it again ;)

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   • polprog68k (gorplop@pleroma.m68k.church)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 07:33:15 JST polprog68k

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     • polprog68k
     @tek_dmn @ret I dont remember the time stamp, but the whole thing is great to listen to tbh.
     https://www.youtube.com/live/ZVT02Ljnv0U