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Author Topic: Avatar's Aspect Ratio Craziness Mike Schindler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1039 From: Oak Park, IL, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 12-13-2009 10:21 AM                     quote: Mark J. Marshall So, what is the IMAX 3D film aspect ratio going to be? Anyone know? We never seem to put the IMAX format info in the FITA forum for some reason. I'm pretty sure it's 1.78 or thereabouts.  |  IP: Logged Mike Croaro Master Film Handler Posts: 394 From: Millbrae, CA Registered: Apr 2005 posted 12-13-2009 01:11 PM                     Top making is a must in those old single screen theatres that were twinned to create two long and narrow auditoriums. Example: Belmont Theatre, Belmont, CA Aud #1 & 2 90 long X 28 feet wide. Scope image = 25 X 11 Flat image = 25 X 13.5 In this example, the scope image is so small raising the top masking to create the flat image is the only realistic option. Mike  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 12-13-2009 01:31 PM                     quote: Chris Slycord I don't understand why poorly designed auditoriums make top masking good.  |  IP: Logged Matt Skilton Film Handler Posts: 43 From: Bromley, Kent, UK Registered: May 2009 posted 12-13-2009 04:34 PM                        We got some paperwork through the other day and all it said was that the digital 3D copy will be scope. Guess we'll find out what's what on Wednesday, probably 10 minutes before its first show  |  IP: Logged Brian Guckian Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 594 From: Dublin, Ireland Registered: Apr 2003 posted 12-13-2009 05:03 PM                     Your problems are only beginning with this movie! What about the holographic version? Whereby the concept of an aspect ratio itself will be rendered completely redundant! (Cue maniacal laughter)  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 12-13-2009 07:01 PM                     90 feet long and 28 feet wide isn't an auditorium, it's a hallway.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-14-2009 03:56 AM                     quote: Sam King 2D is SCOPE, any version of 3D (be in IMAX or digital) is FLAT. The End. Not all too confusing Apparently, it is for you. Why on earth would you post such an inaccurate statement as fact?  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-14-2009 06:50 AM                        quote: Bill Enos 90 feet long and 28 feet wide isn't an auditorium, it's a hallway. Not to worry, we've got a neighborhood theatre out here in Brooklyn that used to be a really nice sized single screen, about 700 seats in it's day -- nicely appointed....not a movie "palace" by any means, but as was done in those days, it had its own individual style, interesting and comfortable. Then they turned it into a 3 plex, after a few months, it was a 5 plex, then shortly after that it was tortured into a 7-plex. So whereas you find theatres that are just hallways, this place has rooms that are no more than closets, or maybe they are using the restrooms as theatres also -- you know, hanging LCD screens on the stall doors. They can call them "digital" to boot! And talking about digital, this one particular place decided that muliplexing that poor single screen like so many horny rabbits wasn't enough to survive, so they pulled out all the film projectors and replaced them with digital. How a digital projector can fix all the horrible twisted boxes in this place that they call "theatres" is the real question.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-14-2009 10:41 AM                     Because digital is perfect, duh!  |  IP: Logged Sean Weitzel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall) Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-14-2009 02:12 PM                     Frank, your description of that theater made me think of the end of the movie "Bachelor Party"  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-14-2009 02:33 PM                        LOL! I think they should have gone for 56 to make the joke a little better, but that's still great. I love how it is in a strip mall.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-14-2009 02:47 PM                     Well, in 1984 36 was today's 56. You have to adjust for inflation.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-14-2009 03:07 PM                        Oh I thought it was a recent movie.  |  IP: Logged Mark Strube Master Film Handler Posts: 322 From: Milwaukee, WI, United States Registered: Feb 2007 posted 12-14-2009 03:35 PM                        We received our hard drive of Avatar 3D today... it's scope (and only scope) and ghost busted (since we have RealD). Looks like it's mostly up to the film booker to make sure you get the right version? Our 3D house is common height, so scope was the best choice. (All of our screens are common height, for that matter... which makes me happy.) By the way, does anyone know where the term "common height/width" comes from? Wouldn't the word "constant" make a lot more sense?  |  IP: Logged Sean McKinnon Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1712 From: Peabody Massachusetts Registered: Sep 2000 posted 12-14-2009 03:42 PM                        Well... The height ot width is the "common" factor in each format.  |  IP: Logged

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