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Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 07-23-2003, 07:40 PM:

Miramax
Flat 1.85
SRD / SR
5 Reels

Tes

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 10-03-2003, 02:58 PM:

I've been running this as specified in 1.85 and have always been troubled by the awful headroom. I just looked at a reel @ 1.66 : 1 and I must say it looks better.

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Alas the last couple minutes of R4 are hard masked to 1.85. Pity because otherwise it looks a lot better at 1.66 : 1.

[ 10-06-2003, 01:20 PM: Message edited by: Steve Kraus ]

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 11-06-2003, 09:12 AM:

Framelines are grey, not black.

This came with a letter from the distributor (Miramax) stating that the framing is tight and that it should be framed to give the maximum amount of headroom.

shot on super-16, digitally blown up to 35mm

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 11-06-2003, 10:28 AM:

Standard SMPTE 201M-2001 specifies a Super 16 camera aperture image area of 12.35 x 7.42 millimeters. Annex B of the standard specifies "Equivalent projection areas of type W 16-mm camera image" as 11.80 x 7.10 millimeters (1.66:1) or 11.80 x 6.38 millimeters (1.85:1). So either aspect ratio may have been used.

Posted by Josh Jones (Member # 447) on 11-17-2003, 08:46 PM:

loose in can "The Barbarian Invasion"
attached "Cold Mountain"

Josh

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 11-19-2003, 10:03 AM:

This came with a letter from the distributor (Miramax) stating that the framing is tight and that it should be framed to give the maximum amount of headroom.

Yep. But doing as requested will have you framing up into 1.66 land and then you'll hit those hard masked areas and have black on screen.

Posted by Christopher Seo (Member # 7) on 12-07-2003, 02:51 AM:

I've been running it in 1.85 framed down and it looks decent.

I checked it against 35-PA and found that the 0.480" mark was ever so slightly below the top of the frame (by about the thickness of that mark). Any lower and the gray matte would start to appear (R-5 particularly).

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 12-07-2003, 10:18 PM:

You're just out of the gray and didn't notice any lower height shots with black masking in R4?

Posted by Christopher Seo (Member # 7) on 12-08-2003, 02:17 AM:

That's correct, Steve. I did pay attention to R-4 per your warning but all seemed fine... unless a bit of black hard matte was there and I confused it with the masking. But nothing extending clear (excuse the pun) down to 0.446" certainly.