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Author Topic: Is common width sometimes better? System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 12-15-2013 01:01 AM                 It has been 2926 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Ron Curran Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 504 From: Springwood NSW Australia Registered: Feb 2006 posted 12-15-2013 01:01 AM                        I assume that Tim Winton's The Turning DCP was designed for common width presentation. This feature is based on the author's book of short stories, each story has a different director for the movie version. Some directors prefer the expanse of the Scope format, while others prefer the more intimate flat format. The DCP is 1.85, so the Scope sequences are letterboxed. Frankly, I am embarrased by this presentation on our common-height screen but there is no easy fix. If the DCP had been Scope, we could have plotted the automation to adjust masking accordingly - the flat portions would have been just the same but the Scope portions would have been correct.  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 12-15-2013 10:37 AM                     quote: Carl Martin that was what i had suspected, but our union guy looked at the light (briefly) without the shutter running and said it was steady. i was surprised that a ripple would have been visually discernable without interference from the shutter Carl, YOU are right, and in this case your 'union guy' is a bit off base. I recently dealt with a similar situation last year. Yes, you'd be able to see a large amount of ripple when viewing a light source sans shutter; but often, small amounts of ripple or phase unbalance can only be seen when viewed on screen with the shutter running. At one time, I made an inductive scope probe using an old coil of wire to detect a tricky ripple on the DC line. I had an electronic scope with storage capibility so I was able to compare the ripple wave-form with that from a known 'good' power supply to help track down the problem. In my case, I traced the problem to a failing filter cap in an old (well, actually, ANCIENT!) carbon arc rectifier power supply that had been badly bastardized to work with the Xenon.  |  IP: Logged Jason Metcalfe Expert Film Handler Posts: 134 From: Austin, TX, U.S. Registered: May 2010 posted 12-22-2013 04:41 PM                     I know this is the wrong forum but what do you guys think of common width screens for digital projection since the screen size would more closely imitate the amount of LCOS/DLP panel that's being used?  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 12-22-2013 05:29 PM                     My personal, unbalanced opinion: Look in the mirror, what do you see? Two eyes, horizontally aligned. Scope should be wider than flat and scope is by far the best format if you want to make an impact. Why should we all collectively bend over for some stupid "industry standards" that are only there, because that happens to be the gold standard for home entertainment?  |  IP: Logged

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