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I still can't believe I actually did all this work on this shot prior to Batch node being introduced/available. It took multiple Action node passes (I remember at least five). And of course, whenever I had to change/revise something upstream in an already rendered pass, I'd have to re-process the revision all the way thru the downstream passes :) This is obviously before the Clip History days. But you know what, working this way taught us a type of discipline. I mean, not that we don't do it now, but we really had to think things thru and had to plan out well before choosing an approach and the execution method for a complex shot. And I am pretty sure that all that discipline learned still benefits most of us to this day, subconsciously or consciously.
This was my first ever inferno reel :) Basically contains the Before and Afters of several shots from various jobs that I had worked on back in the day. Image quality is pure film-to-tape D1 standard all the way thru. Amazes me how well D1 holds up even today if watched pixel for pixel in its original 720 x 486 frame size.
Old montage of the work I did years ago, hence some Standard Definition footage in there. But for the standard def footage, except for a few digital file sources (and still nothing short of uncompressed QuickTimes or uncompressed TIFF/Targa sequences), all the sources are from the original D1 (film to tape) transfers, so the image quality is as good as SD NTSC got during those days. Owing to my background in broadcast, the source/signal integrity and image quality have always been important to me, so during the editing process of this montage, I remember making sure that the entire pipeline remained uncompressed D1 all the way thru and until the final output. I made sure that the source shots with the 3:2 pulldown were not tampered with in terms of resizing and/or any vertical repositioning.. Compared to HD, the image/frame size of the finished master is obviously smaller, but as can be witnessed here when played back, the end-to-end image integrity has stayed pristine and holds up really well to this very day.