I was editing on premiere and just realized how inventive it was for dissolves to be created with actual film but couldn't figure out how it was done until this video. Awesome info for fellow film nerds.
I bought my wife the series collection of Friends on 4K UHD disc recently. It's like stepping in a time machine it looks so good. But every time there's a dissolve transition the picture quality drops drastically.
I always wondered why old movies have jolts before and after dissolves, thank you so much for explaining! One of those things I thought would be impossible to look up...
My god, this explanation was just perfect. This also explains why sometimes I can see some dimming halfway in traditional cross fades. Like the exposures don't perfectly line up
I was 45 years in the business and your explanation is really good, especially the "save money" section where the editor only ordered the dissolve. That was always a challenge to try to even out in telecine but even with the best tools, it never came out perfect, like you said re film grain, film stock, exposure levels etc. How did you learn all those things? If you ever need an explanation on anything film, film laboratory, film problems, I'm your guy. I seriously Know It All!
Are the transitions always linear, or can they be shaped, like half a sine-wave, so the transition starts slowly, speeds up, then ends slowly? Or is that only used for wipes?
Thank you, exactly what I wanted to know. Do you know if this process was always done from positive onto a negative or if there were alternative processes like from a negative onto a positive? I think this would likely affect the look so it's interesting to think about. Also one could use the original negative instead of a copy, possibly increasing the quality.
So they always created what was called an "inter-negative" which was a copy of the original negative. They never touched the original negative after that. It was placed in locked storage. They always went neg to positive to neg (internegative, interpositive, internegative).
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I was editing on premiere and just realized how inventive it was for dissolves to be created with actual film but couldn't figure out how it was done until this video. Awesome info for fellow film nerds.
I bought my wife the series collection of Friends on 4K UHD disc recently. It's like stepping in a time machine it looks so good. But every time there's a dissolve transition the picture quality drops drastically.
haha! I always wondered how it was done in the olden days! Thanks for making this informative and entertaining video!
I always wondered why old movies have jolts before and after dissolves, thank you so much for explaining! One of those things I thought would be impossible to look up...
that George Stevens dissolve was magical. Thanks for the great video! Makes me wonder how much they spent on the effects for Hill's The Sting
My god, this explanation was just perfect. This also explains why sometimes I can see some dimming halfway in traditional cross fades. Like the exposures don't perfectly line up
I always wondered how they did it all in those days. Thanks a mil.
Great video man, thanks
Awesome explanation
Thank you! I was looking for this explanation ❤
I was 45 years in the business and your explanation is really good, especially the "save money" section where the editor only ordered the dissolve. That was always a challenge to try to even out in telecine but even with the best tools, it never came out perfect, like you said re film grain, film stock, exposure levels etc. How did you learn all those things? If you ever need an explanation on anything film, film laboratory, film problems, I'm your guy. I seriously Know It All!
Really great video!!
Thank you, I’ve had this question in my head a long time until now!! 😂🙏
Thank you!! I was very curious about how they used to do on film!
So cool!
Are the transitions always linear, or can they be shaped, like half a sine-wave, so the transition starts slowly, speeds up, then ends slowly? Or is that only used for wipes?
This is great, thank you!
Thank you, exactly what I wanted to know. Do you know if this process was always done from positive onto a negative or if there were alternative processes like from a negative onto a positive? I think this would likely affect the look so it's interesting to think about. Also one could use the original negative instead of a copy, possibly increasing the quality.
So they always created what was called an "inter-negative" which was a copy of the original negative. They never touched the original negative after that. It was placed in locked storage.
They always went neg to positive to neg (internegative, interpositive, internegative).
I’ve wanted to know how this was done for years
excuse me, what is the software used here?
Software? This was hardware old-school.
Fantastic explanation. Exactly what I was looking for without taking too long or being too brief.