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Keep in mind that Open Gate is a 1.55 : 1 aspect ratio, so there is no advantage if you are shooting with anamorphic lenses, for example, or want a 4:3 image.

 

Close to 3.4K Open Gate ARRIRAW is 3.2K ProRes on the Alexa. Either would upsample to 3.8K UHD or 4K for a DCP well.

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Keep in mind that Open Gate is a 1.55 : 1 aspect ratio, so there is no advantage if you are shooting with anamorphic lenses, for example, or want a 4:3 image.

 

Close to 3.4K Open Gate ARRIRAW is 3.2K ProRes on the Alexa. Either would upsample to 3.8K UHD or 4K for a DCP well.

 

I apologise if this may seem redundant for you, but could expand on why there would be no advantage to shooting on anamorphic lenses in Open Gate ? Would it be because the anamorphic lenses have a stretch of 2:1, and would therefore not use the full open gate resolution?

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If you are shooting with 2X anamorphic lenses for a final unsqueezed image with a 2.40 : 1 aspect ratio, that means you are using an area of the sensor that is 1.20 : 1 (6:5) with an image with a 2X optical horizontal squeeze. So if you have a 4:3 Alexa and you switch to recording Open Gate, you are gaining more side information of the sensor but not really more height of the sensor. You don't really need that extra info on the sides since you are going to end up cropping to a 1.20 : 1 area.

 

You can see here that Open Gate and 2.40 anamorphic share the same sensor height:

 

SUP_11_ALEXA-XT-Plus-M-Studio_Rec-Areas-

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If you are shooting with 2X anamorphic lenses for a final unsqueezed image with a 2.40 : 1 aspect ratio, that means you are using an area of the sensor that is 1.20 : 1 (6:5) with an image with a 2X optical horizontal squeeze. So if you have a 4:3 Alexa and you switch to recording Open Gate, you are gaining more side information of the sensor but not really more height of the sensor. You don't really need that extra info on the sides since you are going to end up cropping to a 1.20 : 1 area.

 

You can see here that Open Gate and 2.40 anamorphic share the same sensor height:

 

SUP_11_ALEXA-XT-Plus-M-Studio_Rec-Areas-

 

Great. Thank you.

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If you are shooting with 2X anamorphic lenses for a final unsqueezed image with a 2.40 : 1 aspect ratio, that means you are using an area of the sensor that is 1.20 : 1 (6:5) with an image with a 2X optical horizontal squeeze. So if you have a 4:3 Alexa and you switch to recording Open Gate, you are gaining more side information of the sensor but not really more height of the sensor. You don't really need that extra info on the sides since you are going to end up cropping to a 1.20 : 1 area.

 

You can see here that Open Gate and 2.40 anamorphic share the same sensor height:

 

 

 

So I looked this over and I fully understand what you mean now, but one question unrelated to open gate but to this page you sent. What is the difference between Arri 2.39 Flat and Arri 2.39 Scope 2x ? I thought that flat refers to 1.78- 1.85 ?

 

Thanks

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