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A frame from a 35 mm film print. Here, the picture is framed for the intended theatrical aspect ratio (inside the yellow box). The picture outside of the yellow box is matted out when the film is shown in widescreen. For 4:3 television and home media versions, a large portion of the picture can be used (inside the red box) with an open matte.Open matte example with a slight shift of the image section upwards.Aspect ratio 2.35:1 versus 1.85:1
Open matte is a filming technique that involves matting out the top and bottom of the film frame in the movie projector (known as a soft matte) for the widescreen theatrical release and then scanning the film without a matte (at Academy ratio) for a full screen home video release. It is roughly equivalent to an uncropped version of the film.
Open matte can be used with non-anamorphic films presented in 2.20:1 or 2.39:1, but it isn't used as often, mainly because it adds too much additional headroom, depending upon how well the framing was protected or if the director chooses to create a certain visual aesthetic. Instead, those films will employ either pan and scan or reframing using either the well-protected areas or the areas of interest. Films shot anamorphically use the entire 35 mm frame (except for the soundtrack area), so they must use pan and scan as a result.
Openmatte is a filming technique that involves matting out the top and bottom of the film frame in the movie projector (known as a soft matte) for the...
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transferred openmatte (a full widescreen image extended with added image above and below; though for The Lego Movie, the transferred openmatte used a widescreen...
in both Widescreen (non-anamorphic Univisium 2.00:1) and Full Screen (openmatte) versions.[citation needed] Top Gun's home video success was again reflected...
projected aspect ratio. These mistakes are noticeable only in the film's openmatte video transfers. Lead actor Gregory Walcott, who admired Ed Wood's tenacity...
of the film: the original letterbox 2.39:1 widescreen version and an openmatte 1.33:1 full screen version. Five years later, on August 27, 2002, Artisan...
to VHS on December 23, 1997, and to DVD on February 3, 1998 (with an openmatte aspect ratio). Mill Creek Entertainment released the film in a two-disc...
of computer-animated tests and music videos. Cyberworld even presented open-matte 3D versions of the bar sequence from Antz and the "Homer3" segment from...
incorrectly transferred with an openmatte, which revealed the boom mic at the top of the frame frequently (with the correct matte in a theatrical presentation...
restorative release. Death Becomes Her was initially distributed in an openmatte fullscreen (1.33:1) edition in the U.S. while a Widescreen version with...
released in Europe a Spanish-titled DVD La Leyenda de Billie Jean, with 4:3 openmatte image, but without any bonus material. A remastered NTSC DVD including...
the full unmasked frame is sometimes used for television, known as an openmatte. In such an instance, a photographer will compose for widescreen, but...
song "Mambo No. 5." Not counting Doug's 1st Movie (which was produced in openmatte full screen but was cropped to widescreen for theaters), A Goofy Movie...
the series was shot with a 16:9-safe area, the remastered series is an openmatte of the original 4:3 framing. Creator David Simon approved the new version...
millions of television viewers became accustomed to seeing the film with the open-matte 1.33:1 framing, a presentation that has carried over into the home video...
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