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High Frame Rate: An Unexpected Journey Through The Hobbit’s 48 Frames Per Second Technology

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The Hobbit is finally upon us, and with it, the next step (or misstep) in tentpole movies – 48 Frames Per Second. Even before the film is released, we’re hearing complaints – the most common being that it looks like video and that it causes motion sickness – while exhibitors haven’t exactly embraced the technology [...]




Parts of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey were shot at 96fps

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is just days away from hitting the big screen this weekend, and there’s a lot of anticipation surrounding our return to Middle-earth for various reasons. The most obvious, of course, is that The Lord of the Rings was so immensely successful, and Peter Jackson’s return to the world of hobbits, [...]




Peter Jackson Responds to The Hobbit’s 48fps Comments

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We didn’t do a post on it but you no doubt saw the concerns from multiple sources (here’s the BBC’s report) about the new way in which he’s shooting the two Hobbit movies – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: There and Back Again. The conventional industry standard for shooting movies is 24 frames [...]




Peter Jackson on Shooting The Hobbit at 48fps + New Set Pics

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While we are waiting for the first set video from Peter Jackson and The Hobbit an update was posted on the director’s Facebook page earlier today with a couple of new behind the scenes pictures and a note on the decision to shoot at 48 frames per second. Here’s what Jackson had to say, We [...]