{"id":64134,"date":"2012-10-30T11:48:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T16:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=64134"},"modified":"2012-10-30T11:48:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T16:48:28","slug":"wondering-about-48fps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/10\/30\/64134-wondering-about-48fps\/","title":{"rendered":"Wondering about 48fps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CinemaCon_digital_projector_3240_LG.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-55411 no-lazyload\" title=\"CinemaCon_digital_projector_3240_LG\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CinemaCon_digital_projector_3240_LG-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>As fans get ready to buy advance tickets (or, in some countries, have already bought them!)\u00a0to <em>The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey<\/em>, you may be wondering what format you&#8217;ll be seeing it in at midnight on December 14th.\u00a0 Will your local cinema be able to show it at 48 frames per second?\u00a0 Will you have an IMAX experience?\u00a0 What&#8217;s the advantage of all this new technology, anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Ringer SM for sending along <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dga.org\/Craft\/DGAQ\/All-Articles\/1204-Fall-2012\/Technology-Peter-Jackson-48FPS.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">this interesting article <\/a>from the Directors Guild of America, where Peter Jackson talks about his decision to push forward the 48fps\u00a0technology.\u00a0 He addresses the doubts folks had after seeing footage at CinemaCon\u00a0in Las Vegas last summer; though he dismisses the criticisms, he does go on to say, &#8216;The whites were being clipped, and we weren\u2019t getting the dips and the shadows, which were giving it a slightly electronic sort of video look &#8230; We\u2019ve completely re-designed the way we convert the data from the camera into the image. The highlights and shadows roll off more, giving it a much more filmic look.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole, fascinating article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dga.org\/Craft\/DGAQ\/All-Articles\/1204-Fall-2012\/Technology-Peter-Jackson-48FPS.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Thanks also to Ringer Gwaihir\u00a0for\u00a0alerting us to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.48fpsmovies.com\/48-fps-theater-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; a site where they&#8217;re trying to make a list of theatres which will be capable of showing<em> The Hobbit<\/em>\u00a0at 48fps.\u00a0 If you discover that your local cinema WILL be showing at 48fps, perhaps you can let the folks making the list know?\u00a0 Otherwise, you might want to check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.48fpsmovies.com\/48-fps-theater-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">the page <\/a>from time to time to see if there&#8217;s any news about 48fps in your area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As fans get ready to buy advance tickets (or, in some countries, have already bought them!)\u00a0to The Hobbit:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":55411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[497,14,162,4,74,496,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-production-directors","category-events","category-events-screenings","category-hobbit-movie","category-jackson","category-production","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CinemaCon_digital_projector_3240_LG.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-gGq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64137,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64134\/revisions\/64137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}