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Topic: Configuring your digital screens, do you prefer to crop to the masking or zoom in?
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Antti Nayha
Master Film Handler
Posts: 268
From: Helsinki, Finland
Registered: Oct 2008
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posted 04-12-2012 03:47 AM
Personally, I like properly adjusted masking, even with the sharp edges of digital. I’m even willing to sacrifice a few pixels to achieve that, in case the masking cannot be perfectly adjusted to the image size.
Justin, cropping 15 pixels from both sides is nothing. You’re losing less than 1,5 percent of the horizontal image area that way. Film producers are using much wider ”safe areas” in picture composition and title placement, so you won’t be losing anything that important.
(Note that top & bottom cropping is less forgiving, because vertical framing/composition tends to be much more exact in cinema – even more so with the widescreen ratios we’re using these times. Still, if necessary, I would probably crop 2*15 pixels vertically to make the picture fit the masking.)
3D is an exception. If the film uses floating windows, no horizontal cropping is allowed at all – period. And even if without floating windows, I find that 3D is a lot less forgiving to horizontal cropping. It’s much more irritating to have an object in the foreground chopped off in a stereo image.
It goes without saying that the best thing to do is to fix the masking to accommodate the exact aspect ratios. But in theaters where this cannot be done for whatever reason, I tend to program different lens settings for 2D and 3D. So that 2D picture fits the masking exactly (cropping the sides a bit), and 3D picture is shown in it’s entirety (leaving some empty screen visible).
Of course, your mileage may vary. In some theatres seeing any empty unmasked screen can be very irritating, in others it’s kind of tolerable. Depends on your screen gain, ambient light levels, overall picture brightness, etc.
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Monte L Fullmer
Film God
Posts: 8367
From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 04-12-2012 01:13 PM
True, even if you formatted your digital presentations to a 4:3 TV screen image size and still had mono sound, they prob wouldn't even care.
Like one time, a flat template was used for a scope feature and all was presented in "letterbox" ... and nobody said anything.
Guess, the ball falls back into Justin's court - his choice and let the public make the final call.
To echo Mike's comment: If you don't say anything on what changes you've done - either verbally, or written, they'd never would even notice. But, if a comment was made of the change, then the patrons would wonder "why you had to do the change" and it reflects on your business operations if you had to make it known.
Prob why a lot of cinemas that have done digitial conversion never have advertised it, where a sixplex I know of did do a conversion and really made the splash in the papers about how digital looks so much cleaner without any scratches or fading along with added 7.1 stereo sound.
Bet people were beginning to wonder....
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