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1. |oooo| 4 circles at the tail. I usually cut right before the 4 circles start.

2. ^----^----^ Usually about 6-8 frames of notches with the white bar on the side. Cut before the start of this sequence.

3. Tail with varying, but frame(s) length brown. Find a single frame of brown or clear, cut it, then if you have a neumade splicer, just turn it around in the splicer and place almost a entire length in the splicer and cut, a perfect 8 frame cut.

I do this to preserve as much black leader at the tail as possible so that the transition is smooth. I can't stand sloppy work with ads or anything that people can't take the time to preserve black. They find the first visible frame and cut it.

For trailers not attached to features, how do you prefer to receive them?:

Heads or tails out?
Emulsion-in or emulsion-out?
No core, small 1-inch (25 mm) core, larger core?
Packaging? (loose, bags, boxes, cans)
Length of head leader?
Length of tail leader?
Leader type? (all black, framelines, "oooo" circles, clear)
Identification?
Other "wants"?

"Standardization" of trailers will be difficult, but there is a precedent in the work being done by the TASA committee regarding trailer sound levels.

NCN - Shell, Air Force and Nike
Movietickets.com ad
Coke ad
Preview Snipe
7 trailers!! (I hate that, 4 is plenty)
Silence is Golden Snipe
Feature Presentation Snipe

All in all it's almost 20 minutes, it makes me sick.

I have found that trailers of the same company will be pretty similar to each other except for headup and tailup.

IMHO, trailers should ship as follows...

1. Heads UP
2. Emulsion? Not a big deal with me. Out I guess since that's how my prints sit.
3. Small cores are just fine. Again not a big deal
4. Packaging is a null point as well (to me)
5. No more than 5 feet of head or tail. Why do we need a countdown on a trailer?
6. Clear leader with a clearly marked frame line to cut by. Not a hazy line but a well defined solid line.
7. Identification - I like that some studios have a 'personal' label, easier to tell them apart. But give me the company, title, aspect, version and sound formats on the label, and on the head. Why do I need a short description and who stars in it?
8. Shipped with a nice bow attatched would be great.

If only we could get a standard that all labs followed, man would I be in heaven. Sometimes in a hurry I will grab a used trailer just because I know that it is heads up with the emulsion out, everytime, no hassel.

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Should have framelines on the black.

Should be NO defects on the analog track during the black.

Fade ups mandatory for all green bands.

None of this nonsense on matted trailers where you can see the difference in black shading in advance of the trailer starting, identifying that the trailer to follow will be matted.

NO useless "tv" cue marks in the black!!!

Always, no matter what, heads up/emulsion out. Tails up forces a rewind and emulsion in does not run steadily for a day or two.

I can live with the current small cores *if* they are shipped in padded envelopes/boxes. Let's get rid of the "trailer baggie" please.

Big rant time on attached trailers to follow:

I too leave all of my greenbands on. I too like to show off my steady and clean picture. lets just face it. its just more professional. I use to work at a cinemark 20-plex and we were forced to cut off all green bands and i just always found it so cheesy. oh yeah they alo didnt cover the trailer back up with an leader of any sort, they just rewound it and put a piece of draft tape to hole the heads on the trailer and label it with. making the heads and tails extremely dirty.

I hate those stupid trailers that leave about 5 frames of black right at the credits. and i also hate the ones that have that noise at the tails so you hear this nice hum between trailers (in digital) but if you cut too much off then you lose a lot of film. that sux.

Has anyone ever had a mislabeled trailer from the studios before?

my preferences...

3 ft of pure black (this means no light shining through) on heads and tails with frame lines. I cant stand it when there arent any whatsoever. ie disney. no writing in the analog trax when there is still sound.

heads up, emulsion out.

oh yeah on the blackleader, make sure that there is no defects. I cant stand it when i can see white specks btween trailers or even disloration between to diffent black leaders on two different trailers.

leave enough room so you cna play the full trailer with sound and the intro to the movie with all of the sound with neither of the two clashing into each other. do they not know that some theaters play policy trailers if not that then digital trailers?

The small cores will do but, they sometimes are not durable enough through the handling. i have recieved some before where the cores have cracked.

i like boxes but the padded baggies work. (except when you try and open them barehanded to show off your strength)

Emulsion out of course.

Always have a core. Small or large doesn't matter to me.

I like the new way Fox and Screenvision are sending out their trailers (boxes). The padded pouch is fine too though. The UPS bags are unacceptable though.

Since I run platters I really only need enough heads and tail to wrap around the trailers twice.

No preference on leader type. I do prefer the oooo and ^----^ over the Disney way though.

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The reason for the "gray band" on the Space Cowboys trailer is, the beginning of the trailer is in Black-&-White. Any B&W trailers will always have the gray band. They're using it as an attention getting device.

The trailer is to give the patrons a sense of the look and feel of a feature so that they can decide for themselves if they want to see it. I don't feel that we need a "band" on the trailer to decide for them.

I'll also second the comments about frame lines on the black before and after the trailer. What's so hard about printing frame lines? For platter houses, countdowns are useless, yet they still get printed (although I've seen some that start at "3"), why not frame lines?

Is there any way of identifying where the buzz in the dolby digital track is? If not, that would be my wish Mr. Pytlak.

Those white lines on the side really are annoying. We had Fox tags on features with audio for the fanfare starting in the white lined area. Result? Bye Bye Fox Tag...

They must have woken up to that one though as I've not seen it recently...