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Author Topic: Shutter Reel 2 Ben LaCrosse Film Handler Posts: 27 From: Alpharetta, GA, USA Registered: Feb 2008 posted 03-21-2008 03:09 AM                     We got two copies of this garbage and during both of our quality inspection screenings the movie jumped out of frame going from Reel 1 to Reel 2. One of our prints was used and the other new. As of now I am thinking that either both me and the other build up guy just happened to make a misplice at the exact same spot or all of reel 2 was printed out of frame. Kinda like that National Treasure 2 trailer attached with Dan in Real Life. Anyone else have this issue???  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 03-21-2008 03:41 AM                    I didn't screen it but I think that was the movie that one of the reels had a scene inside a car at the reel change. You had to look at it closely or you would cut it in the wrong place.  |  IP: Logged Ben LaCrosse Film Handler Posts: 27 From: Alpharetta, GA, USA Registered: Feb 2008 posted 03-21-2008 02:35 PM                     Yup, that's what it was. Dunce cap on.  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 03-21-2008 07:02 PM                     Don't feel too bad. I had what sounds like the exact same problem on a print (don't remember the title) late last year. One of the scenes at a change-over took place in a taxi cab. The way the scene was composed, you REALLY had to look closely or you would mistake the (dark) inside roof of the cab for one of the framelines. The kid who made up the print got it wrong twice! I had to straighten it out and it even took me a few seconds of staring at the film to figure out what was going on.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 03-21-2008 08:11 PM                     The end of Reel one is a 1.37/1 frame. The beginning of Reel two is hard matted for 1.75/1 - easy to get in the habit of cutting on the edge of the picture frame instead being in the middle of the large matt area, thus why of these out of frame splices.  |  IP: Logged Chad M Calpito Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 03-21-2008 08:25 PM                        One of my other movie builder's asked me to confirm that he had properly cut the right part of the frame as discussed and upon very close inspection, he got it right for both prints.  |  IP: Logged Fred Tucker Film Handler Posts: 90 From: Sugar Land, TX Registered: Sep 2007 posted 03-22-2008 12:57 AM                     Dont't feel bad I did it too!  |  IP: Logged

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