From: zeno (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Jun 16 2005 - 16:12:07 PDT
>--- jay blanchard <email suppressed> wrote:
>
>> > Pip has
>> > the policy of not making dvd's of his catalog.
>> One
>> > reason is that with a
>> > Stan Brakhage film, it's not as good. Each frame
>> of
>> > his handmade films is
>> > different and dvd's don't reproduce that.
>>
>> And VHS does? I'm confused...
>
>It would in PAL VHS but not neccesarily in NTSC VHS,
>although it would be closer in both cases than a DVD.
>
>DVD's compress the data partly by looking for bits of
>frames that are same. This won't happen very often in
>Stans films but in more conventional films the
>backgrounds (for example) are often fairly static or
>similar from frame to frame.
>
>I don't know what a Stan brakhage film would look like
>on DVD but I imagine you would need high bit rates and
>hence less running time to get good results.
>
>love
>
>Freya
In some of the later hand painted films it appears that frames were
printed in multiples (2 of each or more), is that partly why they
look pretty good on the DVD?
Zeno
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