“Your Skynet is motion smoothing,” Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Knives Out writer-director Rian Johnson said. “Luckily our John Connor has arrived.” What John Connor is he talking about? Well, let’s take a step back here. As wonderful as TVs have become in today’s day and age, there is one sad fact in life: TVs come with all sorts of settings, and in some of those settings, all of the hard work filmmakers put into creating their visual stories can be ruined.

Case-in-point: motion smoothing. It has the ability to turn even the best-looking movie into a high-profile soap opera in terms of video quality. This is something that filmmakers have been speaking out against for years, and now, they are working together with the UHD Alliance — “a coalition whose members include Hollywood studios and consumer electronics manufacturers” — to bring a new TV setting that will give viewers optimal setting for their films.

“Many TVs ship with motion smoothing (and other post-processing settings) as a default,” Johnson noted. “[Filmmaker mode is] a single button that lines up the settings so it works for the benefit of the movie and not against it. If you love movies, Filmmaker Mode will make your movies not look like poo-poo.”

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In addition to Rian Johnson, a video explaining Filmmaker Mode had testimonials from Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, Ryan Coogler, Patty Jenkins, Paul Thomas Anderson, James Cameron, J.J. Abrams, Ava DuVernay, Judd Apatow, Ang Lee, Reed Morano, and the Duffer Brothers.

LG, Panasonic, and Vizio will be implementing Filmmaker Mode on their TVs, though we do not know when.

“I started The Film Foundation in 1990 with the goal to preserve film and protect the filmmaker’s original vision so that the audience can experience these films as they were intended to be seen,” Martin Scorses said. “Most people today are watching these classic films at home rather than in movie theaters, making Filmmaker Mode of particular importance when presenting these films which have specifications unique to being shot on film.”

Black Panther’s Ryan Coogler added: “I care deeply about how cinema is experienced at home because that’s where it lives the longest. That’s where cinema is watched and re-watched and experienced by families. By allowing the artists in the tent to help consult and give feedback to the electronics companies on Filmmaker Mode, we can collectively help make the consumer’s experience even more like it is in the cinema.”

So, what do you think of this new Filmmaker Mode? Is it shocking we don’t have it yet? Also, do you think it possible to have a single mode that can optimize ALL movies? Let us know your thoughts down below!

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SOURCE: THR