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mcfly89 said:iRantanplan said:Where you are completely wrong however is the BTTF example though. Unforgivable ;)
The wrong cropping in BTTF 2 & 3 came because they took a fullscreen master tape (which already had the cropped wide to full composite scenes) and then cropped it. Of course the framing would be wrong then, it's cropped twice now!
When they fixed it they went back to the original negative and took the original widescreen composite scenes which were matted correctly.Back to the Future 2 & 3 were both shot open-matte, which means the Fullscreen master isn't Pan & Scan, but rather includes more information at the top and bottom of the screen. You may be right that they cropped the fullscreen master, which in theory would work, except for the fact that open-matte fullscreen releases usually do zoom the slightest bit (and thus lose a little off the left and right, see Waterworld screens earlier in the thread), and the guy who was overseeing the crop must have had his eyes closed.
McFly I know they were shot Open Matte. However the SFX & Composite scenes were only done in WS (original 4x3 frame cropped to 1.85x1). For the first edition they took a Fullscreen master which was of course all open matte, except the SFX & Composite scenes. They were cropped because the SFX were only done in 1.85x1. This is why all scenes with SFX were framed completely wrong in the first version.
For the re-released they simply took the SFX & composite scenes from a WS master and switched them with the overcropped scenes.
It's like if I would take your Ulysses Cut and zoom it to WS. All scenes will be fine except SFX scenes, which will then be cropped top&bottom,left&right and top&bottom again.