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Topic: Defective dts discs for "Dragonfly"?
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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 02-21-2002 02:40 AM
I was screening a print of Dragonfly in dts tonight and at the end of reel 4 is a scene with heavy use of music and sound. While the movie is mostly a "talkie", confined mainly to the center channel, this scene stood out horribly because there was no screen right channel playing. All of the music appeared to be coming from the left screen channel.So perhaps an amp died. Maybe someone was screwing with the system and has it horribly off balance. Wait, no the trailers sounded fine. Hmmmmm. Right about that time (the music still being loud) the reel change went through into reel 5 and right on the very first frame of the incoming reel WHAM, the right channel came on right at the level it should be. Coincidence? A problem with the sound system? I think not. Will others check for this as they screen their prints of Dragonfly? I have a sneaky suspicion that this was an overlooked "oops" with the dts track. I'm betting the SRD and SDDS tracks are ok, but would like to know what everyone finds as they screen their prints. It doesn't take a sound expert to know exactly what I am referring to. Just watch the scene in the airplane at the end of reel 4 and watch it into the start of reel 5. Karen, can you investigate this for a disc re-issue?
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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
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posted 02-21-2002 11:20 PM
UPDATE: I was able to arrange things this evening to run that print in a different auditorium. Reel 4 in dts not only does not have a right screen channel, but there is no right surround audio either! (The auditorium I screened the movie in yesterday was set up by an engineer who does not believe in surrounds and intentionally sets them very low, hence the reason I did not notice the lack of a RS channel during the reel. He also likes to crank the center channel for some reason. To hell with THX standards, right?) Anyway, the only thing that plays on reel 4 is left, center, left surround and subwoofer. I sat right beside the sound rack and monitored this through the booth monitor as well as watching the levels on the CP500.So the big question now is, what about the SRD and SDDS tracks? Can someone please confirm if the right and right surround tracks are dead through reel 4 in either one of these formats? If so, then it looks to be a fault in the original master. If not, then it appears to be a dts problem. (Keith, watch tomorrow as your print runs through. Since Karen has confirmed there is only one master dts disc made, it seems the broadcast engineers that attended your screening don't have as good of hearing as you might think. It's actually pretty obvious and not something I am being nitpicky about. Go listen for yourself tomorrow.)
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