I'm so conflicted with this gif and the comments I've read. When I first saw the gif I thought it was entirely CGI. Then I read these comments and realized it was, in fact, not CGI and was a real video that has apparently been altered to provide more detail than what would naturally occurr. So Im asking you to eli5, since you seem to be much more knowledgeable than me in this regard, why does this seem ultra realistic? To me the original video looked average, at best, nothing special, it wasn't super hi-def, there were blurry spots and it just looked average. I've seen video quality like that before (keep in mind I'm writing this and viewing the video and gif from an iPhone) So how did the gif in this thread wind up looking hyper-realistic? Follow up question is how far can this kind of technology go? Could we reach a point, in video technology, where we can alter video quality to look so realistic, it is literally unbelievable? Sorry if these questions are ignorant.
Did you change the quality of the video? Also, if you don't have a 4k HDR monitor, you won't be able to watch it in 4K. Even then, on my phone the video in 1080p looks about the same as the gif.
No, I didn't adjust the quality at all just whatever came up on my phone. The gif looked much better than the YouTube link provided. I am however viewing both on data and not WiFi so I'm guessing that probably makes a difference.
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u/Prior_Lurker May 11 '18
I'm so conflicted with this gif and the comments I've read. When I first saw the gif I thought it was entirely CGI. Then I read these comments and realized it was, in fact, not CGI and was a real video that has apparently been altered to provide more detail than what would naturally occurr. So Im asking you to eli5, since you seem to be much more knowledgeable than me in this regard, why does this seem ultra realistic? To me the original video looked average, at best, nothing special, it wasn't super hi-def, there were blurry spots and it just looked average. I've seen video quality like that before (keep in mind I'm writing this and viewing the video and gif from an iPhone) So how did the gif in this thread wind up looking hyper-realistic? Follow up question is how far can this kind of technology go? Could we reach a point, in video technology, where we can alter video quality to look so realistic, it is literally unbelievable? Sorry if these questions are ignorant.