What Resolution Are Movies Produced At? - Video Tech Explained

A lot of people seem to think that hollywood films are produced at some incredibly high resolution. In reality, most are rendered at a surprisingly low resolution...

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There's one other very important piece of information in all this - beyond resolution, the codec and bitrate are also extremely important as to how high the quality of the image is, and affects render time a lot. Rendering to the h.264 format (common for YouTube) is very different than rendering to the MPEG-2 or JPEG 2000 formats, which are the formats used for movie theatres. Also, consider the bitrate - most 1920x1080 YouTube videos are rendered at a bitrate of 8mb/s. In movie theatres, films at nearly the same resolution are delivered at 250mb/s. Pixels aren't the only thing that matters!

[anatoleh]

Wow! You're the first person I've ever seen explaining those DCI standards with such simplicity!

[CraigEstep]

Great job on this. Exactly the right right amount of depth and breadth on this topic for my taste. Looking forward to more videos from you.

[pawfan]

Thank you for clarifying the resolution confusion....Really helps!

[AbhinavanandSingh]

I love this channel. Precise, informative and well made!

[ShawnThuris]

Enjoying your videos, just subscribed to the Patreon!

[c.augustin]

Well done. To the point, with enough context to understand the "why"!

[davidconnell]

I watched this on a 1440P gaming monitor. You did an excellent job in describing the pixel format.

[EagleLeader]

Finally a video on this topic that gets to the point!!! Soooo many others make long winded boring videos that go off topic.

[Moiguay]

Great video
Oly pointing out that the film we're talking about in the beginning moves vertically 😅

[MrRidikolus]

Yeah man great job. I couldn't find a single thing to argue with and that's a huge compliment.

[TanChoonHong]

The clearest explanation I can find to date. Thanks for sharing.

[manflix]

Camon Crocker, how old are you? With that cowlick stickin' up in the back of your hair, you reminded of Alfalfa--of the LITTLE RASCALS(WAYWAY before your time...and your parents, even)... Your presentation was informative, well done, spot on--thanks. 'new subscriber, here.

[georgesealy]

Good job young man, very well explained. I am familiar with the animation process and rendering. It takes serious computer horsepower to create even 1 second because there are 24 frames to render all that detail and movement. I heard that back around 2000 when the Lord of the Rings was being produced, they had about 100 Linux-based computers working around the clock for weeks to create the animation then needed. Computers are lot faster now, but then the digital effects being created are a lot more complex too.

[CeceMelchor]

Thank you, your videos are always increadibly helpful and answer the more nuanced questions I find myself asking.

[Shermanbay]

I enjoyed your cowlick which you emphasized with a spotlighted hairlight. Very informative video, however!

[peterdixon]

A small point (I realise) regarding your comment...'for the first few decades of motion pictures existence'. Film has been around for more than 130 years!

[kunalsoni]

full of enjoyment and easy to understand. informative video too much☺️

[namu]

I set your video to 4k, I can't see any difference. You are still cool.

[misssparkle]

What i am trying to find out is why my new 4k UHD 50" tv makes anything that has standard content look absolutely terrible 😢 (a pixelated, blurry out of focus mess)
While my previous 2021 tv was able to render the same standard input just fine?
Now it seems i can only watch HD content 😢