France Goes Digital

MythBuster

Active Member

Original Poster

• Apr 21, 2011

• #1

The France pavilion movie "Impressions de France" has gone digital. It is the same movie and same soundtrack, no changes, the only thing that changed was the media.

I heard that it is greatly improved really crisp and clean images and remastered it and adjusted some color and some alignment issues.

 

TheDisneyMagic

Well-Known Member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #2

Fantastic news, many thanks for the update, I love the quality gain from going digital.

 

thelookingglass

Well-Known Member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #3

Good news, but how come they can do this for Impressions de France and not Soarin'?

 

marni1971

Park History nut

Premium Member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #4

About time.

 

jt04

Well-Known Member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #5

Wow they really snuck that one in on us.

Brilliant, brilliant move. Just needs some very minor editing to update some scenes.

TDO is on a roll!

 

imagineer boy

Well-Known Member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #6

Fantastic! Its really embarrassing that any screens aren't digital at WDW since half the 20 screens at my local theater are digital.

 

TravisMT81

Well-Known Member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #7

will have to check it out this weekend!!!

 

ChrisFL

Premium Member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #8

so digital but no new scenes? hmm, maybe they're still coming but that seems a bit disappointing...It can't be as challenging as shooting the 360 movies

 

Animaniac93-98

Well-Known Member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #9

Can American Adventure be next, please?

Good news for France though.

 

Atomicmickey

Well-Known Member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #10

How come none of our insiders knew about this? WDWMagic must be informed before upgrades may take place!:lol:

 

ChrisFL

Premium Member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #11

Atomicmickey said:

How come none of our insiders knew about this? WDWMagic must be informed before upgrades may take place!:lol:

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It was rumored months ago, and posted about it...I even posted a thread asking for more info

 

TimeTrip

Well-Known Member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #12

Animaniac93-98 said:

Can American Adventure be next, please?

Good news for France though.

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My understanding is that the final montage for AA has been digital since they updated/changed it. It would definitely be nice if the rest of the background imagery was also digital.

 

Alektronic

Well-Known Member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #13

TimeTrip said:

My understanding is that the final montage for AA has been digital since they updated/changed it. It would definitely be nice if the rest of the background imagery was also digital.

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Everything at AA is still film.

 

hazelrah

Member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #14

That's awesome news. When they switched Muppet Vision to digital, the difference was stunning. Can't wait to check out France.

 

TimeTrip

Well-Known Member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #15

Alektronic said:

Everything at AA is still film.

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Oh well.. I guess it doesn't really have many static images so it's hard to tell its still film.

 

SirNim

Well-Known Member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #16

Mais oui! Très bon!

 

Prototype82

Well-Known Member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #17

About time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Figment1986

Well-Known Member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #18

now can we upgrade Captain EO to digital too?

 

Rob562

Well-Known Member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #19

thelookingglass said:

Good news, but how come they can do this for Impressions de France and not Soarin'?

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To put it simply: Regular-screen digital projectors exist. Digital Omnimax projectors do not.

There's a huge difference between regular 35mm projectors projecting onto a small screen, and a giant 70mm IMAX projector projecting onto an Omnimax screen.

-Rob

 

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Admiral01

Premium Member

• Apr 22, 2011

• #20

ChrisFL said:

so digital but no new scenes? hmm, maybe they're still coming but that seems a bit disappointing...It can't be as challenging as shooting the 360 movies

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At this point I would rather NOT have them screwing around with the movie itself. I can imagine how I would do some re-shoots, but I worry that TDO would just screw up a beautiful movie (since they can't see what I am imagining...). It may ultimately be better to just not mess with it...