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Author Topic: DVD pauses after the 3rd reel Dave Michelsen Film Handler Posts: 8 From: Yorba Linda, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2003 posted 03-18-2003 04:56 PM                     I just saw the layer changeover on the new Harry Potter & Chamber of Secrets DVD (street date 4/11). It happens at 1:16:27. Check it out--it is VERY subtle. DM  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 03-18-2003 06:23 PM                    Hey Dave, Someone was telling me that the new special edition DVD for The Matrix was not going to be released prior to the films. Due to the producers saying it was giving to much information out about the new ones. I s this true?  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 03-18-2003 06:32 PM                       The DVD I made for Screen Attractions does that, too. I just figured it was the authoring software.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-18-2003 06:33 PM                        Yes. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Nate Lehrke Master Film Handler Posts: 396 From: Denver, CO Registered: Oct 2002 posted 03-18-2003 06:35 PM                     How many hours can you fit on a regular DVD? Is there any difference with the double-sided DVD's & a regular DVD?  |  IP: Logged John Lasher Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Newark, DE Registered: Aug 2001 posted 03-18-2003 07:55 PM                        quote: How many hours can you fit on a regular DVD? Is there any difference with the double-sided DVD's & a regular DVD? I assume that by "regular" you mean a single sided, single layered DVD. Do you really want to know how many hours you can fit, or how many hour you should fit? I have a single sided, single layered DVD with almost 4 hours of video on it. But I also own a dual layered DVD with only about 90 minutes of full-motion video. You can fit several hours onto a regular DVD by lowering the bitrate (increasing the compression) but it will most likely look terrible. Or you can spread a shorter film across both layers on both sides with a higher bitrate (less compression). I believe the reccomended "maximum playing time" per layer is 2.5 hours.  |  IP: Logged Dave Michelsen Film Handler Posts: 8 From: Yorba Linda, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2003 posted 03-19-2003 12:43 AM                     quote: Someone was telling me that the new special edition DVD for The Matrix was not going to be released prior to the films. Due to the producers saying it was giving to much information out about the new ones. I s this true? Heck if I know. We just make what's ordered. The studios and Warner Home cook up the marketing schemes. We are having our share of blockbusters coming down the pike this year: HP2, LOTR2, 007-20, Matrix1,2,3, Terminator 3, plus the regular catalog. I'm sure glad people like owning DVDs. DM  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-19-2003 01:02 AM                     quote: Someone was telling me that the new special edition DVD for The Matrix was not going to be released prior to the films. Due to the producers saying it was giving to much information out about the new ones. I s this true? From the recently issued press release: "...Warner Home Video will not be releasing the previously announced The Matrix Special Edition double-disc DVD. In a shift in strategy to broaden The Matrix fan base prior to the May 15 theatrical release of the highly anticipated sequel The Matrix Reloaded, Warner Home Video will reprice The Matrix DVD to $19.99 SRP on April 22. Also on April 22, WHV will reprice the two-pack of The Matrix and The Matrix Revisited - the complete, behind-the-scenes two-hour companion to The Matrix phenomenon - to a new low price of $34.99 SRP. The Matrix DVD will include a mail-in movie ticket offer for The Matrix Reloaded, which must be received by June 6, 2003. This offer will be included in The Matrix DVD, in the single as well as two-pack of The Matrix and The Matrix Revisited. Additionally, it will include a $5 mail-in rebate for The Animatrix DVD, releasing June 3 from Warner Home Video. A $3 mail-in rebate for The Matrix DVD will also be included inside the Enter the Matrix video game...."  |  IP: Logged Laurence Till Film Handler Posts: 6 From: Manville, RI 02838 Registered: Feb 2000 posted 03-22-2003 12:01 PM                     I want to thank everyone for your responses and apologize for pointing this idiosyncracy out. And I won't "get over it" Mike because, even the economically owning of a full motion picture, the layer change, I have learned through this thread, could be an unnoticeable transition. It may even help if the companies tranferring to the DVD format either 1.) have a projectioinist consultant to help with the layer transition, or 2.) maybe incorporate the layer change at a fade to black scene within the feature itself. I have been reading of the format deliberations going on in the decision for digital theatrical presentation theater equipment in Variety. I am hopeful that those units will not have the same blip. I am grateful the cue marks are not in the print used in the transfer process. I have found this thread very informative. I watched "One Hour Photo" last night and did not notice the layer change. There were a lot of fade to black areas thoughout that were incorporated, maybe accidentally, for the change. Thanks again, Larry  |  IP: Logged

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