Most production is still 1920×1080 at a maximum for non-cinema released video production and most movies are still being produced at 2k resolutions.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo blows all of that away by capturing at 5k and laying off to film/digital projection at 4k. David Fincher and the post team actually only used the middle 80% of the full 4-5K pixels that they captured, allowing 1,000 pixels in latitude to reframe any shot in post.
The 4k work flow that they used on this movie is very instructive for those of use working at a lowly 1920×1080 and provide some valuable lessons for anyone working in post. It will be quite some time until 4K is common outside of movie theaters, but the way they worked on this seems to be the wave of the future.
Read the full details from this great Creative Cow article below.
4K DI on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Creative COW
via 4K DI on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Creative COW.