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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NoWork215 • Jul 16 '26
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Here’s me thinking they just plug in a usb somewhere and crack open VLC player on the big screen
110 u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Jul 16 '26 That does seem more efficient than 2.1 million feet of film per movie 19 u/tnstaafsb Jul 16 '26 You'd be surprised how hard it is to cram 2.1 million feet of film into a USB drive. 3 u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Jul 16 '26 Nah I do that every Tuesday 2 u/kaithana Jul 16 '26 4 frames per foot at about 50mb each is something like 410tb of footage. Tough squeeze for a usb drive, I’d say. Compression techniques could save a lot but to replicate true 1:1 imax footage would be a crazy amount of data. 1 u/Zan999 Jul 17 '26 If you are interested in how IMAX is digitalized. Adam Savage did a video on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkAWTmpTBc 1 u/mudo2000 Jul 16 '26 I'm not surprised with that attitude! 1 u/BillGatesLovechild Jul 17 '26 Tarantino heard you talking film and feet and he is all here for it.
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That does seem more efficient than 2.1 million feet of film per movie
19 u/tnstaafsb Jul 16 '26 You'd be surprised how hard it is to cram 2.1 million feet of film into a USB drive. 3 u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Jul 16 '26 Nah I do that every Tuesday 2 u/kaithana Jul 16 '26 4 frames per foot at about 50mb each is something like 410tb of footage. Tough squeeze for a usb drive, I’d say. Compression techniques could save a lot but to replicate true 1:1 imax footage would be a crazy amount of data. 1 u/Zan999 Jul 17 '26 If you are interested in how IMAX is digitalized. Adam Savage did a video on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkAWTmpTBc 1 u/mudo2000 Jul 16 '26 I'm not surprised with that attitude! 1 u/BillGatesLovechild Jul 17 '26 Tarantino heard you talking film and feet and he is all here for it.
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You'd be surprised how hard it is to cram 2.1 million feet of film into a USB drive.
3 u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Jul 16 '26 Nah I do that every Tuesday 2 u/kaithana Jul 16 '26 4 frames per foot at about 50mb each is something like 410tb of footage. Tough squeeze for a usb drive, I’d say. Compression techniques could save a lot but to replicate true 1:1 imax footage would be a crazy amount of data. 1 u/Zan999 Jul 17 '26 If you are interested in how IMAX is digitalized. Adam Savage did a video on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkAWTmpTBc 1 u/mudo2000 Jul 16 '26 I'm not surprised with that attitude!
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Nah I do that every Tuesday
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4 frames per foot at about 50mb each is something like 410tb of footage. Tough squeeze for a usb drive, I’d say. Compression techniques could save a lot but to replicate true 1:1 imax footage would be a crazy amount of data.
1 u/Zan999 Jul 17 '26 If you are interested in how IMAX is digitalized. Adam Savage did a video on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkAWTmpTBc
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If you are interested in how IMAX is digitalized. Adam Savage did a video on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkAWTmpTBc
I'm not surprised with that attitude!
Tarantino heard you talking film and feet and he is all here for it.
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u/moomzzz Jul 16 '26
Here’s me thinking they just plug in a usb somewhere and crack open VLC player on the big screen