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Topic: Mirimax causes chaios
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Josh Kirkhart
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From: Austin/Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 01-01-2002 01:19 AM
The problems with "Kate and Leopold". Recieve booking for sneaks on 'Kate and Leopold' for friday and saturday, and 'joe somebody'for sunday.
No print for 'kate' friday, it shows up sat morning (in a box, no cans) with 'joe somebody'. In the afternoon while building 'kate', I am informed joe somebody is here, huh. Two prints for a sneak, and we still don't know why we got two prints we only opened one the following friday.
Sunday rolls around and we get a fax to break 'kate down', send it back. Fast forward and we recieve the print on my one and only day off, Sunday. Ok, cool I can do this and split early on Christmas eve.
My manager informs me we are opening it in a small Dts-Dolby auditorium. Ok where are the dts discs, none are enclosed? I am informed that dts is not sending out any discs for the restructured print. Fine I'll tech it with the old dts discs that I retreived from a local megaplex that had a screening, no reason the prints time code would change right, I'm a dumbass. The discs don't synch in so I tech it in dolby thru a Ulta Stereo processor and spend the next two hours fiddling and reseting the sound to make it sound enjoyable. It had a small wave in the background noise, informed my tech and he came in to replace the sound pot, which took care of 90% of the wave.
This movie has been the worst experience and the most horrible presentation I've ever let happen. Although it showed me a lot of improvements can be made at this theater starting with thumping and recallibrating all the speakers and just basically clean like a madman. I love film and do my best to present in a beautiful manner but it is very hard when you work for a company that only cares if your on-screen. Sorry for my rambling! Happy new year!! Must now go to bed or my wife will kill me. 'night
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Heyward Garner
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From: Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 01-12-2002 04:01 AM
BI*CHES!
I hate that Mirimax did this to us... My print shows up TWENTY minutes before the show goes on... Pressure is on me, because our city manager is in the theatre pushing for me to have the show on, on schedule... I open my BOX and find cores, no reels... And all tails. Normally, I would be ok, but they HAD to know that I was lacking any means of utilizing a 6,000 reel to build backwards onto. I would have rigged something, had I the time... Talk about working hard, I had the reels ---CORES rewound and attached and on-screen in time for the show, with the help of one of our assistant managers. I'd rather them of not sent the damn print at all... I just had a similar dilemma with Snow Dogs... AHHHHHH!
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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!
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From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 01-27-2002 09:41 PM
>>SR = DTS ???
SRD = DTS maybe, but I was not aware that SR was DTS' equivalent. Please clarify.<<'SR' stands for 'Spectral Recording' (not 'surround', as many seem to believe), a noise reduction and headroom boosting process developed by Dolby and first used in 1987 on the film 'Innerspace' It is somewhat backwards-compatible with Dolby A-type noise reduction, however the reverse is NOT the case. 'SRD' stands for 'Spectral Recording-Digital' This was the original name given to the sound format now commonly known as 'Dolby Digital'. DTS has no connections to either format, a quad-format print will have Dolby Digital (SRD), SDDS, DTS, and a SR track. If the film is encoded with Dolby Digital, its analog track will *always* be Dolby SR (IIRC it's a licensing issue to insure that the analog track is SR rather than A-Type) Early DTS-only films (All Universal titles from 'Jurassic Park' to 'For Better Or Worse' and most MGM films up to 1997 or so, (Bond titles excepted-they have quad-format tracks)) had a DTS-branded A-Type compatible analog soundtrack (the 'DTS Stereo' logo usually seen in the end credits of a film). Later MGM titles used a DTS-branded SR-Compatible analog format. -Aaron
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If a screen is DTS-only, and they don't have the discs, it uses the SR optical soundtrack. They would have to have a processor that can handle the SR analog format. This particular theater has DTS playback units, but I think they use some other non-DTS cinema processor for optical soundtracks, but I'm not sure what it is.
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