DNR on cartoons can remove real elements

[acroyear]

As this WSJ report discusses, most Digital Noise Reduction software is designed for live-action movies and works by detecting when a line appears in one frame and disappers in another, on the assumption that line was dust or noise or maybe a scratch and needs to go, so it wipes it as it assembles the digital master.

That's all good and well in live-action, but in animation, lines are extremely precise and as such, the digital process has "removed" things, especially in high-speed sequences like, say, Woody Woodpecker's laugh.  And unfortunately, quality control experts don't review the results of the process to see where its screwed up and the stuff goes out on DVD that way.  Even the Looney Tunes 2 boxed-set releases have a problem or two.  (Note: Disney's restoration process is hand-supervised for quality on *every single frame* so their releases are generally immune to this sort of thing.)

"I feel like I'm in a military acadamy.  Bits of me keep passing out."

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[hemloche.livejournal.com]

***quoty snip***
"I feel like I'm in a military acadamy. Bits of me keep passing out."


funny you should say that since a friend of mine is actually passing out this friday from the USNA

[wilhelmina-d.livejournal.com]

When I saw the title of the post my first thought was, "how can a cartoon have a do-not-resucitate order?" :)