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Author Topic: Mr. Ripley out of sync John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-02-2000 05:42 AM                     Our dts discs arrived (a week late) yesterday and spool two is 2 secs out of sync. SRD and SR are fine. How can this happen in this day and age?  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 03-02-2000 07:18 AM                        Have you contacted DTS? All of the soundtracks (Analog, DTS, SDDS, Dolby Digital) are exposed on the same sound negative, so they would ALL be out of sync if it was a simple printer thread-up sync problem at the lab. Having only DTS out of sync on one reel implies that the sound negative was recorded improperly (which would affect all copies of that reel), or that there is something wrong with your DTS playback equipment or the data on the DTS disk. ------------------ John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist Worldwide Technical Services, Professional Motion Imaging Eastman Kodak Company Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419 Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA Tel: 716-477-5325 Fax: 716-722-7243 E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com  |  IP: Logged Gordon Leslie Film Handler Posts: 39 From: Perth ,Western Australia Registered: Sep 1999 posted 03-02-2000 07:25 AM                     Yes John your not the only one to have problems with this, I got a call today from another projectionist asking how ours was as his was way out of sync,at my location we're only running this in srd which is fine. Which brings me to a beef also, we received a brand new print of "The Insider", reels 5 6 7 were scratched on the base side , reel 6 badly, we had to screen this for 2 weeks till a replacement print was available, we had a lot of complaints it was terrible it made me cringe when I looked at the screen ,anyway when we ran the replacement print the same reels had the same running scratches.It turned out it was done at the lab, the distributor was accusing us of damaging the first print until the second one turned up with the same scratches!! The same distributor sent out a fax just prior to this movies release to say there was a little problem at the lab, someone stuffed up when running of the reels some prints went out with reels 6&9 labled incorrectly..... Are they now multi skilling in the lab?.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-02-2000 03:58 PM                        Multi-skilling? That would imply that they had skill in the first place  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-03-2000 01:38 AM                     John, It appears all(?) Australian prints have spool two 2 secs out of sync. SR and SRD are okay though.  |  IP: Logged David Kilderry Master Film Handler Posts: 355 From: Melbourne Australia Registered: Sep 1999 posted 03-03-2000 03:52 AM                        At least several of our Ripley prints are out of sync on reel two also, and only with DTS; SR and Dolby digital are fine. Yep, I'm in Australia too.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 03-03-2000 06:23 AM                        Sounds like the sound negative for reel (spool) 2 that was provided to the lab had the DTS time code recorded with a 2 second offset from the other tracks. I hope someone has already contacted DTS and the distributor. ------------------ John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist Worldwide Technical Services, Professional Motion Imaging Eastman Kodak Company Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419 Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA Tel: 716-477-5325 Fax: 716-722-7243 E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com  |  IP: Logged

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