Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Vanity Fair DTS Problem

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Posted by Steve Scott (Member # 630) on 09-02-2004, 07:51 PM:

Technicolor fax'd out this memo yesterday stating that there was a "DTS problem with the reel #6" in Vanity Fair, and that today we'd be receiving a UPS shipper to send the discs back, and to play the feature only in SRD or analog. Now, today I got another fax from Focus stating that the "DTS problem" was that the timecode on R6 was out of sync, and we should prescreen the feature [Roll Eyes]

in DTS to see if our print had the sync problem. They stated that we could call to order a replacement reel, if needed.
But today, anyway, DHL delivers the UPS shipper to return the discs!
Does Focus Features have two people solving this dilema? I have never seen this much contradiction in communications and shipping companies!

Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 09-02-2004, 09:07 PM:

Yeah, the faxed memo clearly stated that replacement discs would not be issued and that the print should play in analog or SRD for the rest of its run.

We're playing it in SRD anyway so it really doesn't matter to us.

Posted by Dean Kollet (Member # 1789) on 09-02-2004, 09:10 PM:

same here, SRD as well....could they really send replacement disks if the timecode was off in say a little piece (2-3 minutes) of the film? Wouldn't it be a big pain to fix that?

Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 09-02-2004, 10:21 PM:

I tried playing it in Dolby Digital, but that is also pretty messed up. Have to play it in analog.

I'm sure the movie studios are not happy when things like this happen to their new releases.

Posted by Dean Kollet (Member # 1789) on 09-02-2004, 10:45 PM:

We are having no problems in Dolby Digital. The only thing I've heard of is a slight buzz here and there, but that's it.

Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 09-02-2004, 11:50 PM:

Our print had bad dolby digital and analog tracks on reel 1. But our reel 6 tracked perfectly in DTS as sent. No Sync problems at all.

Posted by Steve Scott (Member # 630) on 09-03-2004, 09:43 AM:

Dean, Focus stated that the problem was with the timecode on R6, not the discs; when Fox sent out replacement discs for Shallow Hal it had only slightly improved sync over the original set for us.