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Author Topic: WARNING for prints of "RV" Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-27-2006 08:54 PM                     Looks like someone at Deluxe forgot all about the SRD track on reel 1 of RV. If the print in front of me is missing it, odds are there are many others out there without it. Everyone, check your prints. (Do note that just because there are dark squares in between the sprockets, that does not mean it is an SRD track.) Below is a picture of a few frames from my reel 1 without the SRD track.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-27-2006 09:22 PM                     AND they printed it upside down!  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-27-2006 09:28 PM                  This is not a fluke. In order to cut the cost of print film stock, Kodak has stopped coating the emulsion between the sprocket holes. I'm sure John will comment on this...  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 04-27-2006 09:30 PM                        Really strange --- the density between the perfs shows the soundhead printing light for the Dolby Digital area was on, so the sound negative must have just been clear in the Dolby Digital area. If so, all prints of that reel are affected. As Phil well knows, Kodak only leaves the emulsion off between the perfs on the side OPPOSITE the Dolby Digital track. (Actually, film is sensitized as "wide rolls" about 54 inches across, from which 38 35mm strips are slit.)  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 04-27-2006 09:32 PM                        D-Cinema would never have this problem because digital is perfect. Wait - A digital soundtrack is missing??!! Error! Error! This can't be happening!  |  IP: Logged Markus Lemm Expert Film Handler Posts: 113 From: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Registered: Nov 2005 posted 04-27-2006 10:57 PM                        Thats funny. I've never seen a print like that before but I remember the prints of 'Crash' that we played had DTS discs but no DTS timecode on the prints. Not sure if it is a Canadian print issue but I personally handled 3 different prints and they all had DTS discs but no timecode.  |  IP: Logged Chad M Calpito Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 04-27-2006 11:10 PM                        Thanks for the information, Brad I'll make sure that my other projectionists know about it as well.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-28-2006 04:05 AM                        Well, if there was a whole run of these Dolby D-less prints, then chances are it might be a bit of a stretch to think Technicolor can round up a slew of replacement reels overnight. This is a good reason why that SR part of the Dolby SR-D system is tweaked out working to the very best it can be, unless you just want to cancel until you can get a good R1. No reason why the SR analog shouldn't sound nearly as good as the digital track -- most people won't tell the difference, and besides, by the time they sit through 5 other digital reels playing correctly, they won't even remember that it was only analog for the first 18 minutes. Never be afraid of the analog track.  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 04-28-2006 02:39 PM                     quote: Frank Angel Never be afraid of the analog track Unless you use Cat. 222 SR/A cards, IMHO.  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 04-28-2006 05:12 PM                     Remember when the distributors would only put a certain digital track on a certain feature? I seem to remember someone put DD on the first few reels of 'Air Force One' before it was realized it wasn't wanted.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 04-29-2006 08:06 AM                        So are replacement reels being issued?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-29-2006 03:22 PM                     Got mine Friday afternoon. I wonder if the studio didn't already know this was a problem and had prints on standby. I'm going to laugh at the theaters with multiple sound formats (screened in dts and then later moved to srd to this wonderful surprise).  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 04-30-2006 01:12 AM                        No problem here, other than that they shorted me my DTS disk. Spent a few minutes, listening to the ETS guy in California telling me that it was UPS's fault (??). I'll call the local depot on monday... glad that screen has Dolby. Otherwise, I'd have had to feed lesser-quality SR into my FM transmitter, then to the consistent quality of my discerning customers' FM radios (Sorry, Frank!)  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 05-02-2006 05:46 PM                     Is that scope? This must be Barry Sonnenfeld's first scope movie.  |  IP: Logged Martin Ubilluz Film Handler Posts: 21 From: boca raton,fl / United states of America Registered: Apr 2006 posted 05-03-2006 11:35 PM                     I think that was just your print. Im Head of projection at my theater and our print was fine and the prints our 6 other theaters got were fine all cyan and digital  |  IP: Logged

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