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It depends on what you are showing. You've got the basics, except maybe 1:77
(or 16x9) to cover a lot of the stuff being put out by Amazon, Netflix, Apple and
other streaming platforms now. 1:66 is also occasionally encountered on older
titles, but now is starting to be used again by some film-makers. I'm sure others
here will chime-in with their recommendations But, as I've whined about more
than once here on F-T, the aspect ratio situation is getting out of hand. Last fall
at one of the film festivals I worked at, we had to set up 14 aspect ratios, most
of them for Netflix titles. (and yes, they checked each and every friggin' one. . . )
Actually, even though they're made for TV, most of the Apple TV series I've seen are at 1.85. And counter-intuitively, a lot of feature film Blu-rays are opened up from 1.85 to 1.78.
This could all be automated using the MainPictureActiveArea element of SMPTE ST429-16 D-Cinema Packaging — Additional Composition Metadata and Guidelines. It is the area of the MainPictureStoredArea that is intended to be visible to the audience (not masked) and is specified in horizontal and vertical pixels.
When your DCPs are correct and not clobbered by a single flat studio card or studio ad. Or burned in blacks. Major releases should be fine (mostly), but anything in the festival or indy circuit needs to be seen to be believed.
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