Why are parts of the new "Get Smart" movie on video and not film?

[chaosagent]

My wife and I went to see the "Get Smart" movie this afternoon and I noticed something that I've never seen in a commercial movie before.

A number of scenes were done on video and edited into the movie.

It seemed to be mainly during action scenes, especially the scenes during the fighting in the SUV toward the end and some shots with the Chief in the Cessna.

Is this the coming trend? Or something just in this movie?

I hope not, because I've been in video and film long enough that it's very disconcerting to see this done.

Anyone else notice this, or have any ideas about it?

[sinanju]

Are you referring to CGI-enhanced sequences?

I’ve often wondered if the sometimes cheesy computer-generated imaging technique has wiped out a century’s worth of special-effects ingenuity.

[miliantnutcase]

It gives me a job.

[SampleMan]

Might have something to do with the writer’s strike. For whatever reason film projects were affected, while video wasn’t (yes, different contracts). Thus, shooting on video may have allowed them to continue production.

[Bommer]

Movies are now being done digitally, instead of film. If you ever wondered how people can get pirated movies out so quickly, the cause is that the movies are distributed to a lot of theatres on DVD's using hi-def projectors. They started going this way due to the volume of comercials they show.

That being said, most of TV is shot in a video format and taken to companies for whats called as Filmizing where they make the video look like film.