How ‘Avatar’ Got a High Frame Rate Makeover That Actually Looks Great

thewrap.com:

“Avatar” during its new theatrical engagement (or maybe are watching it for the first time), you are no doubt blown away by its presentation.“Avatar” looks noticeably better than it did when it debuted in theaters back in 2009 – it boasts improved picture quality thanks to a new 4K remaster and is now presented in high frame rate (or HFR), which creates a more fluid image.

As eye-popping as the original presentation of “Avatar” was, this new version is even more visually stunning.But this new presentation did leave me with a question: How did the movie go from being a standard, 24-frames-per-second movie (as it was when released in 2009) to an updated, 48-frames-per-second marvel?

Like Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), the crippled marine who takes a mystical voyage to the alien moon of Pandora, I embarked on an equally exotic quest … to Burbank, California.

That’s where I got the answers to “Avatar’s” high frame rate makeover. (Mostly.)As the press release states, this “Avatar” re-release is “the first film to feature cinematic high frame rate powered by TrueCut Motion technology.” At Pixelworks (TrueCut’s parent company) in Burbank, the team from TrueCut Motion showed me how they transformed “Avatar” from a potentially dusty nostalgia play to something wholly engrossing and new.The process that TrueCut Motion provides is “end-to-end motion grading,” Miguel Casillas, Senior Director of Ecosystem Marketing at Pixelworks, said.