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Author Topic: Station Agent Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 07-23-2003 07:40 PM                     Miramax Flat 1.85 SRD / SR 5 Reels Tes  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 10-03-2003 02:58 PM                    I've been running this as specified in 1.85 and have always been troubled by the awful headroom. I just looked at a reel @ 1.66 : 1 and I must say it looks better. --- Alas the last couple minutes of R4 are hard masked to 1.85. Pity because otherwise it looks a lot better at 1.66 : 1. [ 10-06-2003, 01:20 PM: Message edited by: Steve Kraus ]  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-06-2003 09:12 AM                        Framelines are grey, not black. This came with a letter from the distributor (Miramax) stating that the framing is tight and that it should be framed to give the maximum amount of headroom. shot on super-16, digitally blown up to 35mm  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 11-06-2003 10:28 AM                        Standard SMPTE 201M-2001 specifies a Super 16 camera aperture image area of 12.35 x 7.42 millimeters. Annex B of the standard specifies "Equivalent projection areas of type W 16-mm camera image" as 11.80 x 7.10 millimeters (1.66:1) or 11.80 x 6.38 millimeters (1.85:1). So either aspect ratio may have been used.  |  IP: Logged Josh Jones Redhat Posts: 1207 From: Plano, TX Registered: Apr 2000 posted 11-17-2003 08:46 PM                        loose in can "The Barbarian Invasion" attached "Cold Mountain" Josh  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 11-19-2003 10:03 AM                    This came with a letter from the distributor (Miramax) stating that the framing is tight and that it should be framed to give the maximum amount of headroom. Yep. But doing as requested will have you framing up into 1.66 land and then you'll hit those hard masked areas and have black on screen.  |  IP: Logged Christopher Seo Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 530 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-07-2003 02:51 AM                     I've been running it in 1.85 framed down and it looks decent. I checked it against 35-PA and found that the 0.480" mark was ever so slightly below the top of the frame (by about the thickness of that mark). Any lower and the gray matte would start to appear (R-5 particularly).  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 12-07-2003 10:18 PM                    You're just out of the gray and didn't notice any lower height shots with black masking in R4?  |  IP: Logged Christopher Seo Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 530 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-08-2003 02:17 AM                     That's correct, Steve. I did pay attention to R-4 per your warning but all seemed fine... unless a bit of black hard matte was there and I confused it with the masking. But nothing extending clear (excuse the pun) down to 0.446" certainly.  |  IP: Logged

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