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Subject: Re: ATTN: Jms CGI for new series
Date: 21 Mar 2001 23:43:07 -0700
From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated

>And more importantly, will new B5 CGI content finally
>use a true 16:9 square pixel ratio of sufficient
>resolution for HD (e.g. 1280x720p) thereby avoiding
>any cropping/zooming for a 16:9 frame and the resultant
>loss in resolution.

We've already discussed shooting it in wide, and *editing* in wide (rather than
4:3 as we did on the B5 series) and then *compositing and creating cgi* in
wide, so that however it gets initially shown, it'll exist from the git-go in a
true wide version.

 jms

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