There is very little left for us to see ‘Avatar: The sense of water’, the long-awaited sequel to the highest grossing film of all time. james cameron He has a huge challenge ahead of him, but he is not one to back down and let’s hope the result lives up to his ambition. He has now revealed the curious trick that he has used so that the movie’s projections in theaters are not a visual disaster.
The cinemas are not prepared for what he wanted
The reason for this is that the director of ‘Titanic’ is aware that the use of HFR technology could work against youbecause there are times when it is vital to make the viewing of ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ in 3D more immersive, but also in many other scenes it could be disastrous:
We use HFR technology to enhance 3D when we want a greater sense of presence, like underwater or in some of the flight scenes. In the case of shots where people are standing and talking, it hurts us because it creates a kind of hyper-realism in scenes that are more mundane, more normal. And sometimes we need that cinematic feel of 24fps. Can movie theaters support variable frame rate, switching within the movie between 24fps and 48fps? The answer is no, they just project it at 48fps.
A very big problem that forced Cameron to find a solution. Obviously, he didn’t want to have to give up the use of HFR technology, and he himself said a few years ago that he was going to use it for the ‘Avatar’ sequels, and this was the clever trick used to remedy it:
Anywhere in the scene that we want to be at 24fps, we just double frames. And so they actually show the same frame twice, but, but the viewer doesn’t see it that way. And so we’re just using a simple hack to use the HFR platform that already exists.
In this way, Cameron hopes to achieve that strange effect that we could already see in the 3D version of ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’. Now it only remains that this trick does not make a strange effect on the screen, but if how it looks convinces him, I’m sure it will be a good solution.