<scratching head>

I wonder if it would be possible to get the trailer sound files off of a DTS "trailers" disk. I don't have one of those here.

 |  IP: Logged

The units do provide an extra power cable but I am not sure about the scsi daisy chain cable you may have to purchas this cable.

Important the third drive must be the same type of drive that the other two are. Big problem is that the older units use the toshiba drives. Dts no longer uses these drives they now use teac. So if you were going to do this I would order the three drive upgrade kit that also upgrades the firmware chip and scsi card was also updated I do believe along with another card that was added.

But how important is this. I have found with our automations that when a cue is placed on a trailer that is playing in dts it will kick the sound format back to stereo thus taking the system out of digital until it either stops reading a related timecode and then starts again or you manually push the digital button on format card.

For me the only way around this is to be sure that there is a non digital trailer between the last active trailer and the active policy trailer. Placing the cue on the non active trailer. That way it automaticaly goes to digital when active policy starts going thru.

CFS automation, right? There's a fix for that, but it involves cutting a wire. What I do is cut said wire and then install a crimp-on wire connector. That way you can reconnect the wire if needed.

It's the wire that goes to the CENTER terminal of the MONO/STEREO switch. It's white with an orange stripe if I remember. What it does is send the pulse to the stereo processor when the cue goes through. You don't really need that wire anymore since we always play trailers in stereo now.

Suggestion for Karen: Why not make a tiny change to DTS feature programming to either discontinue timecode at the tail of the print (Must the 'Visit Universal Studios' or the rating tag have timecode if it is silent[with rare exceptions] anyways?) or just truncate the file on the discs so that once there is no longer a sound recording to be played the DTS player just stops, keeping the USL processors from reverting back to stereo/SR after being cued into non-sync?

Sorry about the picture quality. It's really hard to take a pic like this in such cramped corners and under booth lighting conditions. Still, I think you get the picture.

For the DTS going back into digital after the IB cue... The reason that happens is because there is more time DTS time code after the blue band and when the machine sees that, it thinks it needs to play something again. It just ends up playing silence until the film tails out. Then it's left in digital.

There are four solutions that I tell people:

1. Put another IBQ on at the tail of the film.
   
2. Take a black Sharpie® marker and blot out all the time code after the end of the blue band.
   
3. Cut off the tail of the film after the blue band and splice on a piece of black leader, etc.
   
4. Check the revision number of your DTS firmware. The newer versions don't seem to do this. Maybe you can get the upgrade and cure this once and for all, without having to screw around with the film
   

(You'll probably need to get that upgrade sooner or later when your disk drives crap-out on you so my vote is for #4... IF you can get "Da Boss" to spring for it )

PS: Mark, can you just make a straight disk-for-disk copy of that test disk? I have been meaning to do that but I haven't quite figured it out. I should probably do this soon because I use that disk a lot and I don't want to "wear it out".

Movie discs are a different story. A studio will let us a film but only wants trailers from THEIR upcoming films on it. They don't want other studios' films on their discs.

The feature discs belong to the studios, not DTS. However, the trailer discws belong to us.

Surprising though that the studios are OK with putting other studios' trailers in with their films in the cans, but don't want them on the disks!

 |  IP: Logged