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Karen Hultgren
Master Film Handler

Posts: 492
From: Agoura Hills, CA, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 02-14-2002 06:21 PM

Hello Ray,

I'd like to say "yes", that every print it correctly labeled but in the real world, I've seen prints mismarked. If the studio correctly lables the print and the optical track is in DTS SR-Type, it should be labeled that way.

Karen at DTS

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Steve Kraus
Film God

Posts: 4094
From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 02-14-2002 11:36 PM

Gordon McLeod asked:
>Is it not more of a question of what is on the mag printmaster
>you recieve to make the optical neg from rather than an encoder
>question to determin the final release?

In absence of an authoritative answer I would suggest that they don't *receive* a printmaster. If it's a DTS Stereo mix then that would mean that their equipment was used to *create* the printmaster. Specifically, their matrix to create 2 channels from 4 and of course 2:4 channel decoding so the mix can be monitored through it. That and some NR cards (presumably Dolby's if SR) and other goodies like metering to avoid clash etc.

I would also hazard a guess that they probably don't make the neg although I could very well be wrong since one of the attributes of DTS Stereo was supposed to be slightly greater maximum modulation of the track. That aside, the mag printmaster would be the *end* of their involvement, not the beginning.

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Ray Derrick
Master Film Handler

Posts: 310
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 02-15-2002 06:44 AM

Thanks Karen

Of course occasional mislabelling is not a problem confined to DTS. I have come across plenty of Dolby Stereo films marked incorrectly, even in broadcast televison where the station would receive a 1" videotape master of a Dolby encoded movie which was marked incorrectly. If no one who knew the difference was around to check, the movie would be played sounding just awful!

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Jeffry L. Johnson
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 809
From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 02-15-2002 09:12 AM

For more information on print masters see "Chapter 11: From Print Masters to Exhibition" in Sound for Film and Television by Tomlinson Holman, ISBN 0-240-80291-8.

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Brad Haven
Master Film Handler

Posts: 300
From: fremantle, West Australia
Registered: Aug 2001

posted 02-24-2002 11:38 AM

i know the topics a bit old now, but i screened "ring 2" (japanese horror) today and it was dts stereo, i played it as dolby sr and it sounded great.
the last dts stereo film before this that i've seen was also "the day trippers"

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