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Posted by Brian Tristam Williams (Member # 1235) on 03-15-2008, 09:26 PM:
 
We're about to replace our 8-year-old website at Nu Metro, and part of the project has got to be getting a decent film database going, to reduce redundancy and replace so much paper.

What has this got to do with you? Well, I often come and look at this forum for data that might help us figure out if the print we're about to get is going to be anamorphic or have SDDS, etc. So I made a list (and checked it twice) about two years ago. But now it's time to move beyond a simple list and formally define the data, so I can include it in my database. I've looked through many titles, and this is the relevant data I've come up with:

Anyone care to shatter my illusion by making this even more complicated than I care to handle? [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Jeffry L. Johnson (Member # 453) on 03-16-2008, 11:42 AM:
 
quote: Brian Tristam Williams
Lens format - can only be flat or anamorphic, right?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image)

007 Physical Description Fixed Field (Motion Picture) web page
 
Posted by Brian Tristam Williams (Member # 1235) on 03-16-2008, 06:02 PM:
 
Dude, I know exactly what an aspect ratio is and that there are lots of them - I'm not a moron [Roll Eyes] - but the query was on lens format - we have over 220 screens, and there are only ever two lens formats to choose from. At least I hope so!
 
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 03-16-2008, 09:08 PM:
 
Probably 99% of times there is only one attachement, a trailer. The only time there is more than one is in the case of, for example Disney/Pixar films which might come with a short + a trailer. Then occasionally there are combo trailers which can either be two movies promoted in one trailer, or two distinct trailers (each with their own "green tag") that are supplied on one strip of film.

You might want to separate that category into "attached trailers" and "other attachements" to cover shorts.

Is this database going to cover old movies as well as recent ones? If so, you'll need more than those two "lens formats." For example, you could run a 1.33:1 film with a standard flat lens but you'd cut off the top and bottom of the picture.
 
Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 03-16-2008, 10:12 PM:
 
Sound can be any of several formats. At the very minimum, you have the following optical sound formats on 35mm:

- silent
- mono (01)
- Dolby A mono (02)
- Dolby A no surround (03)
- Dolby A with surround (04)
- Dolby SR (05)
- Dolby SR mono (Woody Allen)

Tracks can be variable-area or variable-density and, on color prints, can be silver, high-magenta, or cyan. B&W silver prints should be noted as such.

There are also mag prints, 70mm prints, 16mm prints, and other options as well.

Also, consider that prints may have DTS timecode, but no disks.

The presence of subtitles should also be noted, as well as whether the subtitles are printed or laser-burned.

For changeover houses, it is useful to know the type of cues (lab, scratched, grease-pencil, other, none) and spacing (168 or 172 frames between cues, 18 or 24 frames from last cue to end of reel).

For picture format, you have at least the following options for 35mm:

- 1.33 silent (several different possible aperture sizes)
- 1.17 Movietone
- 1.37 Academy
- 1.66 European non-anamorphic widescreen
- 1.75 non-anamorphic widescreen
- 1.85 American non-anamorphic widescreen
- 2.35 early anamorphic
- 2.40 (2.39) current anamorphic
- 2.55 mag only anamorphic (no optical track)

For silents, the frame rate (or rates) should be noted as well.
 




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