I found an 80s music video here available in native HD format, it must have been rescanned from the original 35mm film footage. I wonder if we will ever be able to see all pre-HD era videos rescanned to native HD or UHD
a remaster (presumably upscaled from an SD master) is always shitty, what matters is a rescanned copy generated directly from the original 35mm film.
Indeed... If it exists on film, then it'll need to be, at the very least, 35mm - otherwise, forget it... (like-wise, anything on video, even broadcast formats - prior to HD - forget it...) You can't put back, that what don't exist, in the first place... Interpolation, just don't cut it... Now, in the future, that might change - but, for now...
16mm film (if well preserved) is already good enough for native ~2k resolution. many lower budget music videos seem to have been shot with 16mm film, the rest were generally shot with 35mm cameras like Arri435 (britney spears - toxic/womanizer) or Arri235 (taylor swift - mine) or similar stuff.
At the end of the day, we're - you were - talking HD. 16mm, might only just cut it, for you, but... 35mm, for me, is the least I'd be happy with...
sure 35mm comes with more quality than 16mm, but the MTF resolution of 35mm is far beyond HD (1080p), generally: 70mm corresponds to a digital resolution of 8~10k 35mm corresponds to a digital resolution of 4~6k 16mm corresponds to a digital resolution of ~2k what I'm trying to say is that if a video was shot with 16mm film, it is also worth rescanning to HD to gain more quality.
Yes, I suppose, that would work, looking at your figures... However, we could forget UHD (for 16mm), which you did mention, in your original first message...
I don't know probably not cause they mastered all their videos in SD Betacam (but shooted on 35mm film), in order to get HD they would have to re-edit all the video over again and master it in HD
I think the concept of HD is much older than what we think it is. Linking down a music video from the 80s. Whats interesting is that the video is a TVRip from mid 90s https://uloz.to/file/vSw60m4DIOGE/michael-jackson-smooth-criminal-single-version-hd-q8w1d01y2vy-mkv
TV in the 1990s, definitely weren't broadcasting HD, trust me... Film stock, has always had much higher definition than video - certainly, up until, fairly recently...
this is insane when i think of remasters of videos this is exactly what I'm hoping the quality would look like. I hope one day we get a lot old music videos in this same quality. still hoping for that IMAX version of thriller that was shown in theaters to hit the internet somehow
