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| x 35 mm film |
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Brainstorm |
35 mm film is the film gauge most commonly used for chemical still photography (see 135 film) and motion pictures. The name of the gauge refers to the width of the photographic film, which consists of strips 1.377 ±0.001 inches (34.98 ±0.03 mm) wide...
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| How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate | |||
| Thief | |||
| Silent Running | |||
| Moulin Rouge! | |||
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| x VistaVision |
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The Court Jester |
VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen variant of the 35mm motion picture film format which was created by engineers at Paramount Pictures in 1954.
Paramount did not use anamorphic processes such as CinemaScope but refined the quality of...
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| The Ten Commandments | |||
| High Society | |||
| The Desperate Hours | |||
| x 70 mm film |
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The Ten Commandments |
70mm film (or 65mm film) is a wide high-resolution film gauge, with higher resolution than standard 35mm motion picture film format. As used in camera, the film is 65 mm (2.6 in) wide. For projection, the original 65mm film is printed on 70 mm (2.8...
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| Silent Running | |||
| Riedgost (The Garden of Eden, The Open Country Of A Lonely Man, Riedgost) | |||
| x 16 mm film |
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How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate |
16 mm film refers to a popular, economical gauge of film used for motion pictures and non-theatrical (for instance, industrial or educational) film making. 16 mm refers to the width of the film. Other common film gauges include 8 mm and 35 mm.
16 mm...
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| Pi | |||
| The Wrestler | |||
| One For The Girls | |||
| Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 142 Abbreviation for Dead Winter [diminished by 1,794] | |||
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| x 8 mm film |
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Zapruder film |
8 mm film is a motion picture film format in which the filmstrip is eight millimeters wide. It exists in two main versions: the original standard 8 mm film, also known as regular 8 mm or Double 8 mm, and Super 8. Although both standard 8 mm and...
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| The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome | |||
| The Perfect Man | |||
| Bravestarr: The Movie | |||
| Ung Sex | |||
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| x Super 8 mm film |
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Vivis Dinner |
Super 8 mm film (often simply called Super 8) is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the older "Double" or "Regular" 8 mm home movie format.
The film is nominally 8 mm wide, exactly the same as the...
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| Lovedolls Superstar | |||
| Les Nanas | |||
| Vivi Berens Private | |||
| Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out | |||
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| x Digital film | James Balboa: A Wii Sports Tale |
Digital film is a cinema production and performance system that works by using a digital representation of the brightness and colour of each pixel of the image. This allows much more flexible post-production in the digital domain than would be...
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| Inland Empire | |||
| Brighton Wok: The Legend of Ganja Boxing | |||
| FRO - The Movie | |||
| Suzie | |||
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| x 9.5 mm film |
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9.5 mm film is an amateur film format introduced by Pathé Frères in 1922 as part of the Pathé Baby amateur film system. It was conceived initially as an inexpensive format to provide copies of commercially-made films to home users, although a simple...
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| x IMAX |
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To Fly! |
IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film...
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| Haunted Castle | |||
| Chronos | |||
| Space Station 3D | |||
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| x Single-8 |
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Single-8 is a motion picture film format introduced by Fujifilm of Japan in 1965 as an alternative to the Kodak Super 8 format. The company Konan (that developed the Konan-16 subminiature camera) claims in its history page to have developed the...
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| x CinemaScope |
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Demetrius and the Gladiators |
CinemaScope was an anamorphic lens series used for shooting wide screen movies from 1953 to 1967. Its creation in 1953, by the president of 20th Century-Fox, marked the beginning of the modern anamorphic format in both principal photography and...
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| The Robe | |||
| Bad Day at Black Rock | |||
| Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | |||
| Lady and the Tramp | |||
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| x Cinerama |
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Cinerama is the trademarked name for a widescreen process which works by simultaneously projecting images from three synchronized 35 mm projectors onto a huge, deeply-curved screen, subtending 146° of arc. It is also the trademarked name for the...
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| x 3-D film |
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Sangaree |
A 3D or 3-D (three-dimensional) film or S3D (stereoscopic 3D) film is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception. Derived from stereoscopic photography, a regular motion picture camera system is used to record the images as seen...
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| The French Line | |||
| Emmanuelle 4 | |||
| The Final Destination | |||
| G-Force | |||
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| x Anamorphic widescreen |
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James Balboa: A Wii Sports Tale |
Anamorphic widescreen, when applied to DVD manufacture, is a video process that horizontally squeezes a widescreen image so that it can be stored in a standard 4:3 aspect ratio DVD image frame. Compatible playback equipment can then re-expand the...
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| Hawaiian Vacation | |||
| Dude, Where's My Car? | |||
| Repossessed | |||
| According to Greta | |||
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| x Negative pulldown |
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Negative pulldown is the manner in which an image is exposed on a film stock, described in the number of film perforations spanned by an individual frame. It can also describe the orientation of the image on the negative, whether it is captured...
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| x 70 mm Todd-AO |
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Jesus Christ Superstar |
Todd-AO is a post-production company founded in 1953, providing sound-related services to the motion picture and television industries. The company operates three facilities in the Los Angeles area. Todd-AO is historically known for the Todd-AO...
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| The Sound of Music | |||
| Oklahoma | |||
| Around the World in Eighty Days | |||
| The Miracle of Todd-AO | |||
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| x Kinemacolor |
Kinemacolor was the first successful colour motion picture process, used commercially from 1908 to 1914. It was invented by George Albert Smith of Brighton, England in 1906, and launched by Charles Urban's Urban Trading Co. of London in 1908. From...
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| x Circle-Vision 360° |
Circle-Vision 360° is a film technique, refined by The Walt Disney Company, that uses nine cameras for nine huge screens arranged in a circle. The cameras are usually mounted on top of an automobile for scenes through cities and highways, while...
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| x Techniscope |
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Techniscope or 2-Perf is a 35mm motion picture camera film format introduced by Technicolor Italia in 1963. The Techniscope format uses a two film-perforation negative pulldown per frame, instead of the standard four-perforation frame usually...
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| x Super 35 mm film |
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
Super 35 (originally known as Superscope 235) is a motion picture film format that uses exactly the same film stock as standard 35 mm film, but puts a larger image frame on that stock by using the negative space normally reserved for the optical...
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| The Rock | |||
| The Matrix | |||
| Terminator 2: Judgment Day | |||
| Gattaca | |||
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| x 70 mm Grandeur film |
70 mm Grandeur film, also called Fox Grandeur, was a 70mm widescreen film format developed by the Fox Film Corporation and used commercially on a small scale in 1929-1931. It is technically very similar to the Todd-AO 70mm system, marketed from 1955...
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| x Technirama |
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Technirama is a screen process that was used by some film production houses as an alternative to CinemaScope. It was first used in 1957 but fell into disuse in the mid 1960s. The process was invented by Technicolor and is an anamorphic process with...
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| x Cinemiracle |
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Cinemiracle was a widescreen cinema format competing with Cinerama developed in the 1950s. It was ultimately unsuccessful, with only a single film produced and released in the format. Like Cinerama it used 3 cameras to capture a 2.59:1 image....
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| x Univisium |
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Univisium (macaronic Latin for "unity of images") is a proposed universal film format created by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC and his son, Fabrizio, to unify all future theatrical and television movies into one respective aspect ratio...
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| x Super Technirama 70 |
Super Technirama 70 was the marketing name for films which were photographed in the 35 mm 8-perf Technirama process and optically enlarged to 70 mm 5-perf prints for deluxe exhibition.
A few of the Super Technirama 70 films (including Circus World...
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| x Super Panavision 70 | 2001: A Space Odyssey |
Super Panavision 70 was the marketing brand name used to identify movies photographed with Panavision 70 mm spherical optics between 1959 and 1983.
During the late 1950s, the Hollywood filmmaking community decided that changing from filming in the...
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| Brainstorm | |||
| Ice Station Zebra | |||
| x Polyvision |
Polyvision was the name given to a specialized widescreen film format devised exclusively for the filming and projection of Abel Gance's 1927 film Napoleon. It involved the simultaneous projection of three reels of silent film arrayed in a...
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| x TohoScope |
Toho Scope is an anamorphic lens system developed in the late 1950s by Toho Studios in response to the popularity of CinemaScope. Its technical specifications are identical to those of CinemaScope. This widescreen format was first used for the black...
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| x MGM Camera 65 |
MGM Camera 65 is a wide-screen film format developed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1950s, as a single-strip substitute for Cinerama. It used 65 mm film stock and a special anamorphic lens developed by Panavision, which imparted a slight horizontal...
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| x Ultra Panavision 70 | Mutiny on the Bounty |
Ultra Panavision 70 and MGM Camera 65 were, from 1957 to 1966, the marketing brands that identified motion pictures photographed with Panavision's anamorphic movie camera lenses. 65 mm film was used to capture images in these processes. The project...
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| x RCA Photophone |
RCA Photophone was the trade name given to one of four major competing technologies that emerged in the American film industry in the late 1920s for synchronizing electrically recorded audio to a motion picture image. RCA Photophone was a sound-on...
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| x CinemaScope 55 |
CinemaScope 55 was a large-format version of CinemaScope introduced by Twentieth Century Fox in 1955, which used a film width of 55.625 mm .
Fox had introduced the original 35mm version of CinemaScope in 1953 and it had proved to be commercially...
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| x 4-D film |
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4-D film is a marketing term that describes an entertainment presentation system combining a 3-D film with physical effects in the theatre, which occur in synchronization with the film (note that 4-D films are not actually, geometrically, 4...
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| x 28 mm film |
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28 mm film was introduced by the Pathé Film Company in 1912 under the name Pathé Kok. Geared toward the home market, 28 mm utilized diacetate film stock rather than the flammable nitrate commonly used in 35 mm. The film gauge was deliberately chosen...
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| x Kinoton HDFS |
Kinoton HDFS (High Definition Film System) was a prototype 35 mm motion picture film format proposed by German projector company Kinoton and developed with the film camera company ARRI and the Swiss company Studer. The format was developed between...
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| x Arnoldscope |
Arnoldscope was an experimental 35 mm motion picture film format developed by John Arnold, working in the MGM camera department in the 1950s. The format used normal 35 mm motion picture film, running horizontally, exposing 10 perforations worth of...
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| x IMAX Magic Carpet |
IMAX Magic Carpet is a large format film system, using two IMAX 15/70 mm film format projectors. One of the projectors projects onto a screen in front of the audience, the second projector projects onto a screen under the audience, which is visbile...
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| x Maxivision |
Maxivision 24 and Maxivision 48 are thirty-five millimeter motion picture film formats, designed by Dean Goodhill in 1999. The system uses normal thirty-five millimetre motion picture film, capturing images on three perforations of film per frame....
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| x Photokinema |
Photo-Kinema (some sources say Phono-Kinema) was a sound-on-disc system for motion pictures invented by Orlando Kellum.
The system was first used for a small number of short films, mostly made in 1921. These films presented subjects such as actor...
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| x Showscan |
Showscan is a cinematic process developed by Douglas Trumbull. Similar to 70 mm wide-screen processes, it uses 65 mm film, but photographs and projects it at 60 frames per second – 2.5 times faster than standard movie film. It renders a picture that...
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| x DVD-Video | Seducing Doctor Lewis |
DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVD discs, and is currently the dominant consumer video format in Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia. Discs using the DVD-Video specification require a DVD drive and a MPEG...
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| Futurama: Bender's Big Score | |||
| Moulin Rouge! | |||
| Pilot | |||
| Puccini Conservato | |||
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| x Animation |
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Cracking Contraptions |
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and...
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| Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol | |||
| Koochie Koochie Hota Hai | |||
| Time of Eve | |||
| Treasure Planet | |||
| x Silent film |
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The Whaling Industry |
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards. The idea of combining motion pictures...
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| x High-definition video | Russian Ark |
High-definition video or HD video refers to any video system of higher resolution than standard-definition (SD) video, and most commonly involves display resolutions of 1,280×720 pixels (720p) or 1,920×1,080 pixels (1080i/1080p). This article...
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| Helvetica | |||
| The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce | |||
| This Dust of Words | |||
| 10101 | |||
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| x Real D Cinema |
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Coraline |
RealD Cinema is a digital stereoscopic projection technology made and sold by RealD Inc. It is currently the most widely used technology for watching 3D films in theatres.
RealD 3D cinema technology uses circularly polarized light to produce...
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| Up | |||
| Battle for Terra | |||
| Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert | |||
| Monsters vs. Aliens | |||
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| x 35 mm Todd-AO | The Ordeal | ||
| x Trucolor | Out California Way |
Trucolor was a process used and owned by Consolidated Film Industries division of Republic Pictures. Trucolor was originally a two-strip (red and green) process based on the earlier work of William Van Doren Kelley's Prizma color process. It later...
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| Magic Fire | |||
| Spoilers of the Forest | |||
| That's My Gal | |||
| x Polarized 3D | Creature from the Black Lagoon | ||
| x Anaglaphic 3D | |||
| x Cinecolor |
Cinecolor was an early subtractive color-model two color film process, based upon the Prizma system of the 1910s and 1920s and the Multicolor system of the late 1920s and 1930s. It was developed by William T. Crispinel and Alan M. Gundelfinger, and...
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| x D-cam |
d-cam is a new type of digital speed camera produced by the British subsidiary of South African company Truvelo Manufacturers (Pty) Ltd. Currently being tested by Transport for London on the A4 Great West Road in London, the camera does not flash...
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| x | Mighty Tacoma | ||
| x DVD |
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Not of Today |
DVD is an optical disc storage format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions.
Pre-recorded DVDs are mass-produced using molding...
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| Jan Křížek Sculptures and Bees | |||
| Balance Beams | |||
| Jandek on Corwood | |||
| Amelia | |||
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| x HDCAM |
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Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me |
HDCAM, introduced in 1997, is a high-definition video digital recording videocassette version of digital Betacam, using an 8-bit discrete cosine transform (DCT) compressed 3:1:1 recording, in 1080i-compatible down-sampled resolution of 1440×1080,...
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| I Am Your Grandma | |||
| Beware of Mr. Baker | |||
| Paul Williams Still Alive | |||
| Jeff | |||
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| x Dcp | Hunky Dory | ||
| Pompeya | |||
| Thale | |||
| The Tall Man | |||
| x Blu-ray disc |
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El Medico: The Cubaton Story |
Blu-ray Disc (BD) is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format. The plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs (50 GB)...
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| x ProRes 422 | J@cuzzi B0ys - 'Gl@zin'' |
ProRes is a lossy video compression format developed by Apple Inc. for use in post production that supports up to 4k, it is the successor of the Apple Intermediate Codec and was introduced in 2007 with Final Cut Studio 2.
ProRes is a line of...
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| Every Minute Alone | |||
| Somebody That I Used To Know | |||
| Empyrean | |||
| Guilty | |||
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| x Digital Betacam | Come on Over | ||
| x Betacam | Weekend | ||
| The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye | |||
| Married in Spandex | |||
| Blinding | |||
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