Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

While I understand (now) that the LD master was letterboxed, presumably that master was made from some earlier scan. I'd also imagine that that scan was better resolution than letterboxed 4:3.

I'm pretty sure a fairly direct film->...->D-1 pipeline was used. The storage costs for a digital scan of a film at >NTSC resolution would have been massive in '92/93 and it still would have been on tape.

So if I understand you correctly, the letterboxed LD master was likely the highest resolution entity they had, other than the original film?

I guess the reason that I ask, is because the letterboxed format wasn't the only format that the OUT was available on. There was also pan and scan, and PAL. Presumably the pan and scan was at a higher resolution (albeit with cropped sides). So would those different format masters have been all generated from completely different scans? Might instead there have been one master scan from which these various other masters have been made from? And if so, why not just generate a new anamorphic master from that scan? Or, back to my original question, is it more likely that they saved the various masters but not the scan from which they were made?