> Knowing it was only ever going to be watched on a laser disc they may have produced > the film to run at 30fps, movies don't have to run a 24fps. That doesn't mean they > did of course. >
The film is 24fps; most of the animation is 12fps, with occasional camera and layer movement at 24fps.
The laserdisc is actually mastered at 24fps. It's normal 30fps (well, 60 fields/sec) NTSC, but the frame numbers encoded on the disc run at 24fps. This lets the player show any film frame as a still. Some Disney discs are encoded this way as well. (There's an error in the Dragon's Lair mastering, though, so the second half has some split stills, including the "heart" still at the end of the game.)
> > Dragon's Lair (and Space Ace) has a DVD version for PC, in HD and uncropped that > has > > probably the best image. But I don't think Digital Leisure is selling it anymore. > > AFAIK that was a transfer from the laserdisc.
The did indeed have full-frame HD releases of DL and SA up until a year or two ago:
(The DL demo files are archived, so you can see what you're missing... Note that there is a 5:4 version. I guess this is the true aspect ratio of the film itself. Also, I believe these versions do not have the cleanup / defect removal that done for later releases.)
I don't think there was ever a public release of DL2 in 4:3.
I'm surprised they didn't include the 4:3 on the Blu Ray release. There must be a lot of extra space on that disc...
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