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Author Topic: Any problems with Matrix 3 Reel 5? Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 11-05-2003 02:44 PM                        I was told some prints may have blotches or other distracting elements on reel 5, but I haven`t seen any myself yet.  |  IP: Logged John Carpenter Film Handler Posts: 96 From: Fort Walton Beach, FL, USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 11-05-2003 05:21 PM                     I didnt see anything on the one i saw last night?  |  IP: Logged Alexander Smith Expert Film Handler Posts: 128 From: Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. Registered: Jun 2003 posted 11-05-2003 06:28 PM                     I'm sure I saw some of those silly red dots on reel 2 of one of our 35mm prints last night. Against the green-tinged colour palette, they were quite distracting at the time. Before you ask, I've not had time to watch the other print. :-)  |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 11-06-2003 04:30 AM                     Greetings Alex! LTNS!  |  IP: Logged Dan Harris Film Handler Posts: 86 From: Bristol, UK Registered: Jun 2003 posted 11-06-2003 07:09 AM                     There was some "shadowing" across the left of the image towards the end, lasting for about 10 mins, not sure if it was reel 5 though, as I was almost asleep by this point in the film. I requested another print as there was so much wrong with one of ours. Dan  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 11-06-2003 07:38 AM                        Blotchiness or dark spots along the left hand side of the image may be due to accidental "bleeding" of the developer used to develop silver in the analog soundtrack, into the picture area. Request a replacement reel. Cyan dye soundtracks will eliminate this problem, which is a significant source of print rejections and waste: http://www.dyetracks.org Here is how silver is redeveloped in the analog soundtrack area for current dye+silver tracks: http://www.kodak.com/US/plugins/acrobat/en/motion/support/processing/h249/h2409.pdf (see "Optical Sound Processing, page 34)  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 11-06-2003 06:59 PM                     We seem to have received a print which has very soft focus. I was looking at the scene where they are loading up the little fiter machines a'la "Star Wars."  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 11-06-2003 09:31 PM                        quote: We seem to have received a print which has very soft focus. I was looking at the scene where they are loading up the little fiter machines a'la "Star Wars." When you have lots of digital EFX and CGI, it's hard to know whether the "soft focus" is simply a lack of sufficient resolution, or a printing problem. Were there scenes that did look sharp? Were there differences among reels? Recall in "Star Wars Episode 5: Attack of the Clones", much of the CGI seemed sharper than the 24P live action. Yoda was often the sharpest character on the screen in more ways than one.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 11-06-2003 09:51 PM                        Our print is actually rather good. We've had better, but this ranks up there. The image is stable... no jitter that I'd tend to blame on the film. Color balance is also good. The cap code placement on our print is subtle enough that I think I may have seen it once, but I'm not yet sure.  |  IP: Logged Travis Hubrig Expert Film Handler Posts: 175 From: Minot ND, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 11-08-2003 03:50 PM                     All three of my prints look good, some of the cgi is soft, but no real film issues. I am with Jack, I only saw cap code once, during the scene where Smith chases the bodyguard and little girl throught the building where the Oracle is. It was very small, and difficult to pick out. I wish they would use that more than the other CRAP code.  |  IP: Logged Jim Leko Film Handler Posts: 90 From: Redondo Beach, CA, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 11-08-2003 08:48 PM                     We had print #651, 652, 653. All three prints had a jacked up reel 5. We replaced all of them. Horrible blotches, mostly on the left side of the screen. Edit: I think those were the print numbers. I forget the first digit, but I know they were consecutive.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 11-10-2003 08:40 AM                        quote: All three prints had a jacked up reel 5. We replaced all of them. Horrible blotches, mostly on the left side of the screen. Send those defective reels to someone who thinks cyan dye soundtracks won't offer advantages by eliminating the need to redevelop silver in the analog soundtrack area.  |  IP: Logged

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