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‘Jurassic World Rebirth' HFR With TrueCut Motion Is Exclusive To China
As this screenshot from a video reveals, Cinity is showing 'Jurassic World Rebirth' in 4K at 48 fps ... More with TrueCut Motion.
If you're a fan of picture quality and want to watch the most technically advanced version of Jurassic World Rebirth, then it seems as though you'll have to travel to China to see it.
As I noted in my round-up of which cinema format to choose to see Jurassic World Rebirth, while the film's director, Gareth Edwards, decided to shoot on 35mm film, it is only being exhibited using digital projection (with a DCP taken from a 4K digital intermediate).
You can also choose to see it in RealD 3D, 4DX 3D and Dolby 3D. However, as many find fast action in 3D difficult to follow, I wondered in the previous article why there was no TrueCut Motion version of the film.
It turns out, however, that the TrueCut Motion logo can be spotted in the film's credits. This is because a TrueCut Motion version of the film does exist but if you want to see it you'll have to travel to a Cinity screen in China.
As can be seen in the poster, Cinity is advertising that Jurassic World Rebirth is being shown exclusively in Cinity theaters in 4K at 48 fps with TrueCut Motion.
In contrast to US and Europe, Cinity is happy to push the high frame frame version of the Jurassic ... More World Rebith
What Is Cinity?
Cinity is China's homegrown premium large format cinema tech that brings together high-brightness, wide-color gamut 4K laser projection (and LED cinema) with high dynamic range (HDR), 3D, and high frame rate capability, along with a proprietary object-based surround sound format.
TrueCut Motion is the 'motion grading' technology from Pixelworks used in Avatar: The Way of Water and other movies/remasters to make fast motion in high-frame-rate projection look more natural, or rather, more like 24fps.
When high frame rate was used by the likes of Peter Jackson (The Hobbit Trilogy) and Ang Lee (Gemini Man) to make fast motion more discernible, many critics felt that the smoothness of the image looked unnatural.
This is where TrueCut Motion comes in. It allows filmmakers to dial in as much smoothness as they wish so that they get the benefit of using high frame rate, but with the look of 24fps. It does so by dealing with visual anomalies that occur in fast motion, such as judder, the impact of which is exacerbated on large, bright screens that underpin the latest, laser-projection-powered premium large format screens.
However, it seems that Universal Pictures feels that HFR has received too much of a bad rap to offer an HFR version in the West, even with TrueCut Motion in place. (After writing this piece, I will be heading off to see Jurassic World Rebirth in Dolby 3D, and if it does turn out to be HFR, I will update the article.)
With China contributing a significant $41.5 million to the movie's $318 million opening weekend, (the second best of the franchise so far behind Jurassic World (2015), which took $524.4 million), it certainly makes sense that they would use the cutting-edge tech to push the film any way they can in the country.
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