300 - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1. Black bars at the top and bottom of the screen are normal for this screen format. The original 35mm cut negative was scanned at 4k resolution on an Imagica “Imager” XE Scanner. The final down-sampled 2K files were color corrected using a da Vinci 2K Color Corrector and recorded to an HD 24-frame progressive D5. The soundtrack was mastered at 24-bit from the original magnetic tracks. Enhanced for widescreen televisions, this transfer was supervised by Wes Anderson and director of photography Robert Yeoman. To maintain optimal image quality through the compression process, the picture on this dual-layer DVD-9 was encoded at the highest-possible bit rate for the quantity of materials included.