Hello guys I got a Back to the Future (1985) [SF098-1168] and it looks like open matte.i know that on lddb it says it’s panscan but I think that is not the case
It's actually a bit of both. The CGI effects were only formatted for 1.85 theatrical release, so scenes where there are no effects are open matte. Scenes with CGI are pan & scan.
Sorry - The above is mis-spoken. It SHOULD read:
It's actually a bit of both. The SFX were only formatted for 1.85 theatrical release, so scenes where there are no effects are open matte. Scenes with effects are pan & scan.
See, changing those two references really didn't alter the content of the post. I apologize for any confusion and frustration I may have caused.
And to answer the second question from the original poster, yes, all "full screen" 4:3 video transfers of BTTF are a mix of open matte and Pan & Scan.
Last edited by blam1 on 03 Apr 2019, 19:44, edited 1 time in total.
That would make sense to me. They don’t waste money hand airbrushing scenes frame by frame usually so those would have to be P&S shots or else all the FX wouldn’t fill the screen. Using the full frame for standard cuts would look better than P&S. I’ve never see it though.
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