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Author Topic: Madagascar 3 aspect ratio (2D) Steven J Hart Master Film Handler Posts: 282 From: WALES, ND, USA Registered: Mar 2004 posted 06-07-2012 11:15 AM                        I pre-screened this morning, and the 1.85:1 flat image does not fill my screen from side to side. Top and bottom are fine. I'm just coming off MIB 3 which is also flat, and that show fit the screen fine. I also ran a test image for flat and it filled the screen. Anyone else running into this issue?  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-07-2012 11:49 AM                     Sounds like it might be 1.78 (aka 16x9) -- I've had that from time to time, but not with a big-budget Hollywood feature -- not that I get too many of those here. Even though the lens file is the same as 1.85, I went ahead and made a 1.78 preset with its own screen file, to create parallel edges with the side masking. (I've got visible keystoning, but maybe you don't.) The DCI naming convention only refers to Flat, Scope and Full Container. Pretty much anything that isn't 2.39 gets labeled as "Flat." So, now that "Flat" doesn't really mean anything anymore, I've taken to naming my presets "DCI 185" and "DCI 178" etc so as to be as specific as possible. (I have several flavors of 1.85 so, yeah, I have to differentiate between DCI 1.85 versus HD 1.85 and SD 1.85, and even 35mm 1.85 -- when digital trailers precede a film feature and I don't want to adjust the screen masking curtains.)  |  IP: Logged Danial Simmonds Expert Film Handler Posts: 107 From: Kota Damansara, Selangor, Malaysia Registered: Jan 2008 posted 06-07-2012 12:26 PM                        Hi from Malaysia, today we screened this movie, and the same thing too. All our install site's called in saying that the content properties from the server shows 1998 x 1080 but on the DCP it wrote HD 2K I e-mailed deluxe they replied i see reference 2k... didnt answer my question What is happening..  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 06-09-2012 07:39 AM                     Maybe this results from a floating window 3D master being cropped for 2D. You would think that for animation movies they could easily render out every imaginable aspect ratio, but maybe this time they didn't bother for a dedicated 2D version and created it from the 3D. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Jock Blakley Expert Film Handler Posts: 218 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: Oct 2011 posted 06-13-2012 08:27 PM                     We get 1.77:1 DCPs all the time - particularly for some rep titles, unfortunately. Like Manny, it's gotten to the point where I have separate presets for DCI 133, 166, 177, 185, 220, and 239.  |  IP: Logged Frederick Lanoy Film Handler Posts: 88 From: North of France Registered: Aug 2009 posted 06-19-2012 05:32 PM                     The 3 D version is 1.77 with a very noticeable floating windows. I was surprised to see that the 2 D version was also in 1.77...  |  IP: Logged

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