Filmmaker James Cameron is spending $18 million and a full year converting “Titanic” from 2D to 3D.
Although he acknowledges that 2D-to-3D conversion is, and will continue to improve, filmmaker James Cameron says it will never be as good as shooting in 3D, noting that even with that kind of time and financial investment in “Titanic 3D,” it will still only be 90% as good as if he had shot it in 3D to begin with, he said in a pre-lunch Keynote address at the annual 3D Entertainment Summit at the Hollywood & Highland center. “It’s just 2.2 or 2.4,” he said.
Also working against conversion for a filmmaker, Cameron said, is having to spend months focusing entirely on depth issues of shots you already filmed, as opposed to having 3D simply be one of many elements of the shooting process during initial production.
See Cameron’s full comments on the topic in the following 90-second video below (Three other James Cameron videos here.)…
— By Scott Hettrick