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Author Topic: Vanity Fair DTS Problem Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 09-02-2004 07:51 PM                     Technicolor fax'd out this memo yesterday stating that there was a "DTS problem with the reel #6" in Vanity Fair, and that today we'd be receiving a UPS shipper to send the discs back, and to play the feature only in SRD or analog. Now, today I got another fax from Focus stating that the "DTS problem" was that the timecode on R6 was out of sync, and we should prescreen the feature in DTS to see if our print had the sync problem. They stated that we could call to order a replacement reel, if needed. But today, anyway, DHL delivers the UPS shipper to return the discs! Does Focus Features have two people solving this dilema? I have never seen this much contradiction in communications and shipping companies!  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-02-2004 09:07 PM                     Yeah, the faxed memo clearly stated that replacement discs would not be issued and that the print should play in analog or SRD for the rest of its run. We're playing it in SRD anyway so it really doesn't matter to us.  |  IP: Logged Dean Kollet Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 591 From: Florida State University Registered: Jul 2003 posted 09-02-2004 09:10 PM                     same here, SRD as well....could they really send replacement disks if the timecode was off in say a little piece (2-3 minutes) of the film? Wouldn't it be a big pain to fix that?  |  IP: Logged Wolff King Morrow Master Film Handler Posts: 490 From: Denton, TX, USA Registered: Feb 2004 posted 09-02-2004 10:21 PM                        I tried playing it in Dolby Digital, but that is also pretty messed up. Have to play it in analog. I'm sure the movie studios are not happy when things like this happen to their new releases.  |  IP: Logged Dean Kollet Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 591 From: Florida State University Registered: Jul 2003 posted 09-02-2004 10:45 PM                     We are having no problems in Dolby Digital. The only thing I've heard of is a slight buzz here and there, but that's it.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-02-2004 11:50 PM                     Our print had bad dolby digital and analog tracks on reel 1. But our reel 6 tracked perfectly in DTS as sent. No Sync problems at all.  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 09-03-2004 09:43 AM                     Dean, Focus stated that the problem was with the timecode on R6, not the discs; when Fox sent out replacement discs for Shallow Hal it had only slightly improved sync over the original set for us.  |  IP: Logged

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