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Topic: Jurassic Park (Request)
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John Hawkinson
Film God
Posts: 2273
From: Cambridge, MA, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 06-28-2006 06:51 PM
This is SEVEN reels, not six.
Uni's print #2 (via Deluxe/FilmTreat West, aka ICS) was struck on 2004-datecoded Kodak 2383 polyester, and appears to be uncut and near flawless.
DTS "Flying Disc" (#1045) is attached.
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EDIT: Above, Brad notes, "Further note, this being the first dts release, if you stop the show mid-reel, don't expect for the dts to kick back in! It needs to see leader to tell it to start playing the discs."
This seems to be not entirely true. Our discs arrived chasing the print today (original pressed ones, not CDRs! I'm impressed!), so we didn't get a chance to evaluate DTS for our QC screening. But tonight we had all sorts of problems getting DTS to work right for R1, and ultimately it kicked in midway through the reel. It was fine for all other reels, however.
(We're sort of puzzled about the problem, since running R2->R1 yields a working start of R1, but running trailers -> R1 gives this problem. And then there's the DTS-CSS display reporting that the current reel was R14 (!). Followups in another forum, though, please.)
--jhawk
[ 06-30-2006, 10:25 PM: Message edited by: John Hawkinson ]
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Blaine Young
Master Film Handler
Posts: 477
From: Kirkland, WA, USA
Registered: Sep 2006
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posted 12-04-2008 11:05 PM
quote: John Hawkinson was the last to post
Further note, this being the first dts release, if you stop the show mid-reel, don't expect for the dts to kick back in! It needs to see leader to tell it to start playing the discs.
Brad's quote above is true. The current version of timecode repeats the Serial Number every 16th frame. (DTS encoded trailers are every other frame). However, on Jurassic Park, a serial number frame is encoded every couple of feet, then drops to once every 8 feet and by about 30 seconds into the reel, is does not seem to be repeated again. If it did finally kick in about half way through the reel, there must be another Serial Number ID frame later in the reel. I've examined the first several minutes of R1 beginning at the Univesal logo and there are no SN frames.
The same pattern can be noted in the timecode for the "Jurassic Park" trailer (SN 1001).
Since you were able to get R2->R1 to play and stay in DTS, the system appears to simply 'remember' the Serial number, and if it finds a valid reel number to match the new timecode, it will just switch over and continue playing.
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