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  2. Open matte - Wikipedia

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    Open matte is a filming technique that involves matting out the top and bottom of the film frame in the movie projector (known as a soft matte) for the widescreen theatrical release and then scanning the film without a matte (at Academy ratio) for a full screen home video release. It is roughly equivalent to an uncropped version of the film.

  3. Seamless branching - Wikipedia

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    Another possible use of seamless branching is for the localisation (translation) of on-screen visible text. The Star Wars DVDs with their opening crawl are a prime example. Normally, only the audio track of films is translated into other languages, but when text central to the plot is visible on-screen, the scene may be created once for every ...

  4. Digital Cinema Package - Wikipedia

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    Track Files carry the essence, which is wrapped using Material eXchange Format (MXF). Two track files at a minimum must be present in every composition (see SMPTE ST429-2 D-Cinema Packaging – DCP Constraints, or Cinepedia [4]): a track file carrying picture essence, and a track file carrying audio essence. The composition, consisting of a ...

  5. DVD region code - Wikipedia

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    North Korea and South Korea have different DVD region codes (North Korea: region 5, South Korea: region 3), but use the same Blu-ray region code (region A). In China, two DVD region codes are used: Mainland China uses region 6, but Hong Kong and Macau use region 3. There are also two Blu-ray regions used: China uses region C, while Hong Kong ...

  6. Letterboxing (filming) - Wikipedia

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    The term "SmileBox" is a registered trademark [4] used to describe a type of letter-boxing for Cinerama films, such as on the Blu-ray release of How the West Was Won.The image is produced by using a map projection-like technique to approximate how the picture might look if projected onto a curved Cinerama screen.

  7. Pirated movie release types - Wikipedia

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    In October 1999, DeCSS was released. This program enables anyone to remove the CSS encryption on a DVD. Although its authors only intended the software to be used for playback purposes, [2] it also meant that one could decode the content perfectly for ripping; combined with the DivX 3.11 Alpha codec released shortly after, the new codec increased video quality from near VHS to almost DVD ...

  8. Phase 4 Films - Wikipedia

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    In late December 2013, Disney filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Phase 4 in California federal court, seeking an injunction against the continued distribution of Frozen Land in the U.S. [6] [7] Disney alleged that less than three weeks prior to the release of its animated feature film Frozen, Phase 4 Films theatrically released The ...

  9. QIIME - Wikipedia

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    QIIME (English: / tʃ aɪ m / ch-eye-m) [1] is a bioinformatics data science platform, originally developed for analysis of high-throughput microbiome marker gene (e.g., 16S or 18S rRNA genes) amplicon sequencing data. There have been two major versions of the QIIME platform, QIIME 1 [2] and QIIME 2. [3]