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Author Topic: Custom Aspect Ratios Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-21-2017 12:20 PM                        Well good, maybe that'll contribute to it being a big flop and we can be done with The Most Annoying Franchise of All Time.  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 06-21-2017 12:27 PM                     I just watched the first five minutes because they have actually sent the kdm through today and it swaps between full flat and very small black bars (like a 1.95:1 aspect or something) virtually between every shot. It looks weird. . I fast forwarded and in the action scenes in the middle it swaps between full and 2:35.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-21-2017 12:47 PM                        quote: Mike Blakesley we can be done with The Most Annoying Franchise of All Time. EXACTLY, perfectly put!  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 06-21-2017 08:20 PM                     quote: Philip Jones This was intentional by the filmmaker. Well, something intentional in Transformers, at last... - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 06-21-2017 09:56 PM                     Just a 'heads-up': Sofia Coppola's "The Beguiled" which I did several press screenings for a few weeks ago & comes out later this month is 1:66. The drive I got did not contain a framing chart, but often the 'per-release' drives I get have content that differs than the 'final release drives' that go out to the theaters. (and I've got a collection of 'off' framing charts anyway)  |  IP: Logged Mark Strube Master Film Handler Posts: 322 From: Milwaukee, WI, United States Registered: Feb 2007 posted 06-23-2017 05:45 PM                        The changing aspect ratios in Transformers 5 look terrible. When I previewed it I felt like I was watching an SFX workprint. It makes the whole thing feel unfinished. It looks like all the shots were composed with Scope in mind... I wonder if any theaters will just opt to crop it. I think I'd prefer to watch that version, if I was going to watch this at all.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-29-2017 05:45 PM                        And this just in for Menashe: quote: This feature is in a flat 2.0 aspect ratio. When projecting please ensure this is being played in 2.1 Scope. If not and projected in 1.85 Flat, this will create letterboxing and if projected in 2.39 scope it will cut off the subtitles. If you do not have a 2.0 setting on your projector please reach out to the manufacturer to obtain. I asked and they do not have a framing slide.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-29-2017 08:42 PM                        Wait, so they are obviously aware they are sending an odd AR but then they don't include a framing slide? Then they deserve whatever they it looks like -- letterboxed, no subtitles...hey, maybe even both.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-29-2017 08:55 PM                        Betcha the key doesn't work until the day before the show. As I already have this booked, I've got a reminder to myself to get a QC key.  |  IP: Logged Daniel Schulz Master Film Handler Posts: 387 From: Los Angeles, CA USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 07-31-2017 10:14 PM                        At least one cinema ran Dunkirk windowboxed (black bars all 'round), and told complaining patrons that "the movie was just filmed that way."  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-01-2017 06:50 AM                     In a sense, it WAS. There is a sheet that says RUN IT FLAT. So if you have a scope screen, and like all modern theatres, you have no adjustable masking, when you follow directions, you have a floating image that fills the screen in no directions!  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 08-01-2017 07:09 AM                     Well, especially if you do not have adjustable masking, you should at least try to fill the screen either horizontally or vertically. Window-boxed content really looks like amateur hour, like somebody showing me a bunch of PowerPoint slides.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-01-2017 09:38 AM                     No masking is amateur hour. I know a site, all common height that HAD manual pull side masking. When new management came in, they removed the movable masking so what are they supposed to do (at the theatre level)? Sure, ideally, every format should have a proper screen/preset file for it. But "Flat" and "Scope" is what 99% of the theatres get.  |  IP: Logged

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