France Goes Digital

[MythBuster]

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]

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

 

[thelookingglass]

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

 

[marni1971]

About time.

 

[jt04]

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]

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

 

[TravisMT81]

will have to check it out this weekend!!!

 

[ChrisFL]

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]

Can American Adventure be next, please?

Good news for France though.

 

[Atomicmickey]

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

 

[ChrisFL]

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

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

 

[TimeTrip]

Can American Adventure be next, please?

Good news for France though.

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]

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.

Everything at AA is still film.

 

[hazelrah]

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

 

[TimeTrip]

Everything at AA is still film.

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

 

[SirNim]

Mais oui! Très bon!

 

[Prototype82]

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

 

[Figment1986]

now can we upgrade Captain EO to digital too?

 

[Rob562]

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

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

 

[Admiral01]

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

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...