Open matte is a filming technique that involves matting out the top and bottom of the film frame in the movie projector (known as a soft matte) for the...

Look up Matte or matte in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Matte may refer to: paint with a non-glossy finish. See diffuse reflection. a framing element...

transferred open matte (a full widescreen image extended with added image above and below; though for The Lego Movie, the transferred open matte used a widescreen...

and the matte background. The traveling matte changed that. The traveling matte was like an in-camera or bi-pack matte, except that the matte line changed...

open matte or reframing. In pan and scan, the 4:3 image is extracted from within the original frame by cropping the sides of the film. In open matte,...

in both Widescreen (non-anamorphic Univisium 2.00:1) and Full Screen (open matte) versions.[citation needed] Top Gun's home video success was again reflected...

projected aspect ratio. These mistakes are noticeable only in the film's open matte video transfers. Lead actor Gregory Walcott, who admired Ed Wood's tenacity...

of computer-animated tests and music videos. Cyberworld even presented open-matte 3D versions of the bar sequence from Antz and the "Homer3" segment from...

incorrectly transferred with an open matte, which revealed the boom mic at the top of the frame frequently (with the correct matte in a theatrical presentation...

millions of television viewers became accustomed to seeing the film with the open-matte 1.33:1 framing, a presentation that has carried over into the home video...

to VHS on December 23, 1997, and to DVD on February 3, 1998 (with an open matte aspect ratio). Mill Creek Entertainment released the film in a two-disc...

of the film: the original letterbox 2.39:1 widescreen version and an open matte 1.33:1 full screen version. Five years later, on August 27, 2002, Artisan...

33:1 raster space. This has similarities to a filming technique called open matte. In 1993, the European Union instituted the 16:9 Action Plan, to accelerate...

containing the "standard" full screen version. The "standard" version is an open matte print, in which the mattes used to make the image "widescreen" are removed...

1999. It was first released on DVD in 1997. The DVD was presented in an open-matte full-screen presentation. Its only feature was the film's theatrical trailer...

released in Europe a Spanish-titled DVD La Leyenda de Billie Jean, with 4:3 open matte image, but without any bonus material. A remastered NTSC DVD including...

film's first broadcast on BBC became notorious for showing the film in an open matte (4:3) format, rather than the 2.35:1 ratio in which the film was intended...

restorative release. Death Becomes Her was initially distributed in an open matte fullscreen (1.33:1) edition in the U.S. while a Widescreen version with...

original theatrical 2.39:1 anamorphic widescreen aspect ratio and an open matte 1:33.1 fullscreen edition, on November 7, 2006, in the United States and...

for widescreen presentation, allowing the show to be presented in 16:9 open matte (leaving only the title sequence in the 4:3 format). However, as the production...

the full unmasked frame is sometimes used for television, known as an open matte. In such an instance, a photographer will compose for widescreen, but...

the series was shot with a 16:9-safe area, the remastered series is an open matte of the original 4:3 framing. Creator David Simon approved the new version...

a package entitled Problem Child Tantrum Pack. They were presented in open-matte full screen only. However, no home video release thus far features the...

song "Mambo No. 5." Not counting Doug's 1st Movie (which was produced in open matte full screen but was cropped to widescreen for theaters), A Goofy Movie...

or EAR (Expanded Aspect Ratio)/open matte, the latter meaning removing the cinematic matte from a 2.40:1 film to open up the full 1.33:1 frame or from...

released in October, 2009. The digital release of the film is in 16x9 open matte. "The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) - Financial Information". The-numbers...

matted 16:9 widescreen format. The miniseries was originally filmed in open matte format, with director Kenneth Johnson stating he had also composed the...

be reissued a year later because of framing errors in converting from open matte to widescreen. In June 2008, a special screening of the trilogy was held...

1999. Both versions (and any television screenings) use the original open matte negative of the film, instead of matting it down to 1.85:1 (or 1.66:1)...

However, original copies of that DVD release presented the film in an open matte aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Later copies presented the film in its original...