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Originally Posted by Post Prod
Well keep in mind when every they make a new transferor strike a new master they are open matte. So if cropping is ever needed for this process, they should still have more than enough picture information to maintain the OAR and picture framing for all practical concerns.
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Right but the cropping would need to be from the sides not from the top and bottom. The only films that would be open matte are flat films (1.66:1, 1.75:1, 1.85:1 and 1.33:1 but then that is open matte so that's not really the point). Any film that is scope unless it was shot with Super 35mm (which exists but is probably pretty rare) has no extra head room. Prints for 2.35:1 (scope) are anamorphically squeezed onto a 1.33:1 frame (maybe it's 1.37:1 but that's just nitpicking). Therefor my point is still very valid. Before you ask how I know this, I was a projectionist for 7 years so I have quite a bit of knowledge about actual film.
Also sorry OP for getting off topic.