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The Debate Continues ...(digital filmmaking )

Dean, Richard

Even as digital filmmaking gains favour within the movie making fraternity, arguments for and against this relatively new form of filmmaking continue to rage. Asia Image Technical Guide takes a look at the developments in digital film production

The debate about film versus video is as old as video itself. It's only since the development, within the last couple of years, of the 24P high definition 1080-line progressive scan format -- which has the same 24fps frame rate as film -- that video has posed any real threat to motion picture film.

As with electronic projection, ...