OPENMATTE

Open matte

Open matte is a filming technique that involves matting out the top and bottom of the film frame in the movie projector for the widescreen theatrical release and then scanning the film without a matte for a full screen home video release.

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open matte

Adjective

  1. Of a soft matte film, transferred to a home video format with the full frame exposed, thus having the theatrical mattes removed.
    an open matte DVD


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