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Author Topic: The 5.1 of Catching Fire is out of sync here... John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-20-2013 06:14 PM                     The 5.1 of Catching Fire is out of sync here...maybe by at least 3 - 4 frames. I tested it on two screens and re-booted servers and processors. No change. The 7.1 is OK though and that's what we're using even though we only have 5.1. Fortunately we have KDM's for both versions. Is this world-wide or just Oz? They added a ROADSHOW title to the beginning of ours so maybe that's where the issue is? We'll see.  |  IP: Logged Ian Freer Expert Film Handler Posts: 135 From: Wellington, New Zealand Registered: Oct 2003 posted 11-20-2013 09:54 PM                     It's definitely the same here in NZ, but of course I think we just got the Aus version as it's the same distributor...  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-21-2013 06:35 AM                     See...that is what you get when you play a northern hemisphere movie in the southern hemisphere! It is vice-versa up here when we get one of your HFR Hobbit movies...it just doesn't look right.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 11-21-2013 08:54 AM                     Yep. Adjust your timezone and it will play in sync. ;-) - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 11-21-2013 09:40 AM                     I figured films just played backwards down under. AJG  |  IP: Logged Marc Jensen Film Handler Posts: 20 From: Auckland, New Zealand Registered: Jan 2006 posted 11-21-2013 08:30 PM                     Word is out now. "Run 7.1." It would have been good to know about this before the midnight screenings, but distributors' ideas on when KDMs should be active... Comedy ensues. I've heard that some sites have resorted to mass refunds for patrons who came to their midnight shows.  |  IP: Logged Danial Simmonds Expert Film Handler Posts: 107 From: Kota Damansara, Selangor, Malaysia Registered: Jan 2008 posted 11-21-2013 11:53 PM                        For this title catching fire, did any of you face subtitle issues? It is huge covering half the screen? Using the Projector Subtitles fixes the issue, but not when using server subtitles and some projectors it doesnt work i think it could be due to some projectors are still on a bit older version.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 11-22-2013 04:26 AM                     Can't you just adjust the audio delay, on either the server or the sound processor?  |  IP: Logged Jock Blakley Expert Film Handler Posts: 218 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: Oct 2011 posted 11-22-2013 05:53 AM                     That would only work if it was consistently out of sync - I seem to recall reading elsewhere that it drifts in and out?  |  IP: Logged Antti Nayha Master Film Handler Posts: 268 From: Helsinki, Finland Registered: Oct 2008 posted 11-22-2013 08:31 AM                     quote: Aaron Garman I figured films just played backwards down under. Actually they play upside down. However, the patrons' brains have adapted so that they don't even notice it. It's a bummer for tourists, though.  |  IP: Logged Marc Jensen Film Handler Posts: 20 From: Auckland, New Zealand Registered: Jan 2006 posted 11-22-2013 08:26 PM                     quote: Stephen Furley Can't you just adjust the audio delay, on either the server or the sound processor? I was told that the sync problem was evident in just the first 20 minutes, so no.  |  IP: Logged Peter Castle Expert Film Handler Posts: 220 From: Wollongong University, NSW ,Australia Registered: Oct 2003 posted 11-22-2013 11:24 PM                     Sync problems usually upset me, but I sat through the whole movie without detecting any sync problem.  |  IP: Logged Harold Hallikainen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 906 From: Denver, CO, USA Registered: Aug 2009 posted 11-23-2013 12:09 AM                        Sync problems? How about no sound? http://i.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/9433665/Cinema-crammed-movie-silent Harold  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 11-23-2013 05:56 AM                     Wow, that's a nice one ;-) (from the above link) 'Someone had initially forgotten to switch the film's sound on, but when the matter was brought to his attention by a customer, he was able to restore the soundtrack, he said. However, restarting the film so that viewers could watch the opening scenes with sound was not possible because he did not know how to do it.' 'When asked if people were seated in the aisles during the screening, Mr Cook said he would not comment, as "that would be undesirable and probably illegal".' - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 11-23-2013 09:04 AM                     I also heard the other day of a cinema that ran the second part of the movie after the intermission (sigh!) with the lights on. Staff could not intervene because they did not know how to turn the lights off...  |  IP: Logged

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