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Topic: Most common digital format(s) question
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Rick Long
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 759
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-20-1999 01:42 AM
This question is asked of projectionists who are running first-run prints on an almost daily basis.What percentage of the prints you receive have: (a) D.T.S., S.R.D., AND S.D.D.S. tracks all on one print? (b) D.T.S. and S.R.D. on one print? (c) D.T.S. and S.D.D.S on one print? (d) S.R.D. and S.D.D.S. on one print? (e) Optical SVA or SR only? (I am assuming that mono is very rare, nowadays.) I appreciate the information. Thank you
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Bruce McGee
Phenomenal Film Handler
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Posts: 1776
From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999
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posted 12-20-1999 11:48 PM
Does anybody know off hand what a print from around 1992 with THX in the credits uses for its digital system?Now, I am going to find a FG thread and talk there. If you need more info, I can run the last reel again and see if there is anything else on the credits.
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Scott Ribbens
Expert Film Handler
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From: Los Angeles
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted 12-21-1999 02:18 AM
Chris, if I may call you that, I think that Rick may have been reffering to Dolby "A" type noise reduction as some of the older DTS movies had a DTS digital track with a Dolby "A" optical track.SVA or Stereo Variable Area is the type of sound track that you see on all of the movies that are put out today. Before that there was the Variable Density soundtrack that was mono. Instead of having an area of the soundtrack that is clear, a variable density track was shades of grey over the entire soundtrack area. I'm sure that someone else can do a better job of describing this than I am doing in the sleep state that I am in at the moment. Most, 99.99% I would think, stereo films that are produced today use some kind of noise reduction. I'm sure if you looked REALLY HARD, you MIGHT find a film out there with a stereo track that has no noise reduction of any kind on it. I saw one once about 4 years ago. Even Woody Allen is using SR, just with no surround. Formats 02, and 03 are the only Dolby formats that use noise reduction, but no surround decoding. ------------------
Scott
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Christopher Seo
Jedi Master Film Handler
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Posts: 530
From: Los Angeles, CA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-22-1999 01:47 AM
Sure, Chris is fine.Thanks for the information, it clears some issues up. I've just been confused as of late, since I've been working with ancient Kintek processors (I'm used to the CP500...). The Kintek model KT-1005, for example, has sound format options of mono, SVA, and Spec Rec. I know what mono is, and I'm assuming that Spec Rec means that the Kintek can process Dolby SR, but I don't quite know where to place SVA in the scheme of things. Is this feature simply equivalent to Dolby format 02 or 03? Or Dolby A? The Kintek manuals assume that I know what all of these abbreviations mean.
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