How can O Brother Where Art Thou be the first film done on a digital intermediate?

[Drain Bamage]

Thats a claim I see thrown around a lot by supposed cinephiles.

"O Brother" was the first movie done with a digital intermediate."

How? O Brother came out in 2000.

How did they get the CGI into Terminator 2 in 1991 without a digital intermediate?

 

[Pizza Werewolf]

Thats a claim I see thrown around a lot by supposed cinephiles.

"O Brother" was the first movie done with a digital intermediate."

How? O Brother came out in 2000.

How did they get the CGI into Terminator 2 in 1991 without a digital intermediate?

Time travel bro.

 

[INTERL0PER]

I'm pretty sure they're referring to the fact that it wasn't filmed on "film" but on a digital camera. IIRC it was one of the first films made on a RED camera (a high end professional digital camera). That era was when people started to make the transition as the technology was finally able to handle it. 28 Days Later was also famous for this in 2002.

They're definitely NOT referring to there being CGI in the film.

 

[DanSavage]

Thats a claim I see thrown around a lot by supposed cinephiles.

"O Brother" was the first movie done with a digital intermediate."

How? O Brother came out in 2000.

How did they get the CGI into Terminator 2 in 1991 without a digital intermediate?

What they're referring to was that once the film was finished, they altered the colors on the screen in post-production. They gave the movie an overall sepia-tone to evoke the old-time feel they wanted.

For example, in the scene in which the escapees meet up with Tommy, the fields are shown in the movie to be dried out. When filmed, the fields were deep green.

 

[LEWIS540]

For a guy who makes so many film threads you know so little about films.

 

[Drain Bamage]

I'm pretty sure they're referring to the fact that it wasn't filmed on "film" but on a digital camera. IIRC it was one of the first films made on a RED camera (a high end professional digital camera). That era was when people started to make the transition as the technology was finally able to handle it. 28 Days Later was also famous for this in 2002.

They're definitely NOT referring to there being CGI in the film.

It was shot on film

 

[Drain Bamage]

For a guy who makes so many film threads you know so little about films.

I know a lot more than you

 

[Drain Bamage]

What they're referring to was that once the film was finished, they altered the colors on the screen in post-production. They gave the movie an overall sepia-tone to evoke the old-time feel they wanted.

For example, in the scene in which the escapees meet up with Tommy, the fields are shown in the movie to be dried out. When filmed, the fields were deep green.

We just wont mention Schindlers List (1993)

 

[loyalyolayal]

What they're referring to was that once the film was finished, they altered the colors on the screen in post-production. They gave the movie an overall sepia-tone to evoke the old-time feel they wanted.

For example, in the scene in which the escapees meet up with Tommy, the fields are shown in the movie to be dried out. When filmed, the fields were deep green.

 

[chill doggie]

Pretty sure that was The Godfather (1972)

 

[Drain Bamage]

Schindler's List in 1993 desaturated everything but a little girl wearing a red jacket.

 

[loyalyolayal]

Schindler's List in 1993 desaturated everything but a little girl wearing a red jacket.

Digitally?

 

[Drain Bamage]

Digitally?

They filmed in BW and added the red later

 

[Post 2 Decision]

You think they filmed a CGI terminator walking around the set my guy?

 

[Drain Bamage]

You think they filmed a CGI terminator walking around the set my guy?

Exactly, so they must have used a DI. But we already are past that. What O Brother is supposedly the first at is digital color grading but I'm thinking Schindler's List may have done it first to add red to the girls coat.

 

[Satsui Ryu]

I always thought Collateral was the first.

 

[Drain Bamage]

I always thought Collateral was the first.

Not even close.

Attack of the Clones was one of the first digitally filmed (high def) movies in 2002.

 

[DanSavage]

We just wont mention Schindlers List (1993)

Digital Intermediate

2000: O Brother, Where Art Thou? – The first time a digital intermediate was used on the entirety of a first-run Hollywood film which otherwise had very few visual effects. The work was done in Los Angeles by Cinesite utilizing a Spirit DataCine for scanning at 2K resolution, a Pandora International MegaDef system to adjust the color and a Kodak Lightning II recorder to output to film.

 

[Blayt7hh]

TS hasn’t figure out how to use google yet

 

[Graves The Elder]

total CGI
1923