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Author Topic: ETS setting a fine, fine example of quality Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-25-2005 10:21 PM                     I can't speak for ETS branches outside of Dallas, but this one certainly has it's share of problems (of which for the most part I have been nice and not posted about). This example however is just so damn pathetic, yet funny at the same time, that I just could not resist. Check out this PHENOMENAL job in attaching a trailer to Paramount's "Longest Yard" reel 1. I received two prints and both had virtually identical splice jobs. Yes indeed, that darkened area you see is masking tape!!! Furthermore they left the "FINISH" frame intact just before the opening Paramount logo. Genius!!!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 05-25-2005 10:31 PM                        What the hell is this? It looks to me like ETS Dallas truly does value quality and presentation. So what's up with their management there? I bet whenever anyone is within their presence, their bowels become unstable. Perhaps there is an IQ test that employees there must take, and they look to make sure that nobody who scores over 65 is hired. Or maybe that qualification is just for their leader.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-25-2005 11:59 PM                     Huh? If they weren't spliced together, how the heck did the "Finish" frame from the TRAILER end up on the head of the FEATURE?  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-26-2005 12:29 AM                        They must be hiring ex-projectionists to splice the trailers on. That looks just like a typical used-print splice job.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-26-2005 02:13 AM                     ...unless someone in the 'assembly line' received those reels with the added trailer that was held by the masking tape from the head of the 'assembly line', AND whom was SUPPOSED to splice the trailer to the feature, DIDN't or FAILED to do their job of joining the two together, either by not paying attention, not caring, or simply wasn't instructed to perform this task. Some sort of instructional "communication breakdown" (yea-Led Zeppelin....) (can't support this one being in a discount house) -Monte -Monte  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: Boulder Creek, CA. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 05-26-2005 03:07 AM                     That'a rediculous. Until recently splice-on attachments from ETS were usually out of frame and in some cases still had the tail of the original attachment on the head of R1. Most recently however ETS has been ignoring my messages about the defective DTS timecode on certain reels of 2 of our prints of EP3. I really don't think I'm going to persue it anymore but rather swap reels around until I get a print that doesn't drop in and out of DTS.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-27-2005 05:24 PM                     Hmmm...but then you've got the issue of mismatched CAP code to consider...  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-27-2005 05:51 PM                     Why don't these morons just throw the trailer in with the film, and let the theater splice it on? If their not going to do the job correctly, why spend the time doing it half ass.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-27-2005 06:06 PM                     quote: Bruce Hansen Why don't these morons just throw the trailer in with the film Because they charge the studio a fee for the job.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-27-2005 07:18 PM                     The studio needs a refund. How about everyone else? Was the attachment job OUTSIDE OF THE DALLAS ETS DEPOT done properly?  |  IP: Logged Dennis Udovich Film Handler Posts: 71 From: Sheboygan, WI, USA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 05-27-2005 09:46 PM                        ETS Milwaukee. Both prints of Longest Yard had this trailer out of frame. While on this subject, "Why can't the film labs place a simple to see frame line at the beginning and end of all trailers?"  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-27-2005 10:10 PM                        ETS Atlanta - trailer was spliced one sprocket out of frame. Also, the depot was a mess - disorganized as all get-out ... many trucking companies were unable to get all of their prints until Thursday (myself included) - while they spent an hour looking for a specific print number of House Of Wax to give me (never mind the other 3 dozen they had in plain sight).  |  IP: Logged Jason Whitlock Film Handler Posts: 28 From: Raleigh, NC, USA Registered: Mar 2005 posted 05-28-2005 12:26 AM                     We had a copy of The Longest Yard where the head of reel one was put on backwards (the beginning was on the inside, and the cut part that was made to splice on the attached trailer was on the outside.. at least the splice was in frame.. but the tape wasn't straight or centered on the splice..  |  IP: Logged Bernie Anderson Jr Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: Woodbridge, New Jersey Registered: Apr 2000 posted 05-28-2005 08:33 AM                        You'll be happy to know that ETS (New York) which is actually in Rahway NJ, if nothing but the best. I always get my films in a timely manner and print print preparation is excellent. Even used prints are in excellent condition. I never get a junk print. Prints usually come all heads up or tails out. I rarely have to rewind opposite windings. Bernie  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 05-28-2005 08:37 AM                     You would be checking frame even if the trailer had been spliced on, so what's the difference? Much whining about very little.  |  IP: Logged

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