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 quicklimes 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. I have always been big on image quality/signal integrity, so during the editing process of this montage, I made sure that the pipeline remained uncompressed D1 all the way thru until the final outputs to DigiBeta & file formats. I made sure that the shots with 3:2 pulldown were not tampered with in terms of resizing or vertical repositioning, etc. Compared to HD, the image/frame size of the finished conform is obviously smaller, but it is actually being viewed here at 720 x 486, pixel-for-pixel on the screen (with no ReSizing), therefore end-to-end image integrity & quality stay pristine.