"There's been growing concern in the production community that with the many settings available on consumer TVs, the filmmaker's creative decisions that are made during production and post are not always what is displayed. This new "Filmmaker Mode" for supported TV models is aimed at giving viewers a consistent, cinematic representation of images as the filmmakers intended, in terms of color, contrast, aspect ratio and frame rates.
As part of the specification development process, the UHDA sought input from more than 400 filmmakers, including 140 directors and cinematographers. The Alliance also reached out to the Directors Guild, American Society of Cinematographers, American Cinema Editors, DGA and Martin Scorsese's The Film Foundation.
Rian Johnson, director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi and upcoming Knives Out, was on hand for the announcement and explained the Mode with an analogy for sci-fi fans. "Your Skynet is motion smoothing. … Luckily our John Connor has arrived."
Johnson noted that home theater technology is currently in a "Golden Age," but warned that "many TVs ship with motion smoothing (and other post-processing settings) as a default."
He noted that Filmmaker Mode offers "a single button that lines up the settings so it works for the benefit of the movie and not against it." He got a laugh as he added, "If you love movies, Filmmaker Mode will make your movies not look like poo poo."
Praise be. So sick of motion smoothing.
