RealD TrueImage Image Enhancement Tech used on The Hobbit 2
Jan 14, 2014 No Comments
RealD TrueImage Image Enhancement Technology debuts With ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ for more immersive and lifelike visuals
RealD Inc. (NYSE: RLD) announced today that the company’s new 2D and 3D image enhancement technology, RealD TrueImage™, has been utilised during post-production of ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,’ a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM). RealD TrueImage eliminates artifacts commonly associated with digital and film based capture through a proprietary process, resulting in higher quality imagery which is more detailed, lifelike and a more accurate reflection of a filmmaker’s intent.
“As soon as I saw a demonstration of RealD TrueImage I wanted to use it on ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’,” said director Peter Jackson. “This technology eliminated digital noise and other artifacts. Very noisy low-light shots we had been struggling with in the grade were suddenly completely clean, and I extended the process into as many Hobbit shots as I could. By cleaning up noise we were suddenly free to really push the dynamic range and get extraordinary detail. The clean image makes for a much more comfortable 3D experience because your left and right eyes are not being asked to process separate levels of artifacts.”
“RealD TrueImage marks demonstrable progress in our mission to perfect the visual image in both 2D and 3D,” said Michael V. Lewis, Chairman and CEO of RealD. “By giving content creators more creative control while producing a superior image on screen, RealD TrueImage™ is an invaluable tool for delivering on the promise of a premium visual experience in the theatre, home or wherever content is viewed.”
Applicable to both production and post-production environments, RealD TrueImage calculates millions of data points per pixel to correct for artifacts, reconstructing an image with the originally intended aesthetic, without compromise. The technology is applicable to all formats of a movie, including archive and day-and-date material, as well as large format venues, HFR, HD, 2k, UHD and 4k content, creating a more detailed and lifelike 2D image as well as a more immersive and comfortable viewing experience for both natively captured and converted 3D content.
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