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Wednesday, July 21, 2010 

Big Brother HD Style

As part of being a video editor, you pretty much have to look at ALL the footage for a shoot to log and decide the best scenes to use. Looking at some recent HD footage from a concert with approx. 20k people, the razor-sharp clarity of some of the crowd shots gave me a thought: If someone were trying to document someone being at that place, at that time... you can pick out WAY more detail on faces in the audience on the wide shots with HD than with standard def. You can also zoom in much much more before the image starts breaking up. 

Of course, I have no doubt the government has all that technology X 1000, 15 years ago minimum, but witnessing this relatively new tool on a consumer level is mighty interesting indeed.