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Open matte

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 widescreen theatrical release and then scanning the film without a matte (at Academy ratio) for a full screenhome video release, thus not only providing a much better full frame presentation than cropping, but considerably more convenient than pan and scan.

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