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Old 03-25-2005, 06:39 AM
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Default film print sound 2 frames early

hi all!

we printmastered a film at 29.97. everything was in synch. to check, we played back from the DMU, there is supposed to be a 2 frame delay the dolby tech told us. we couldn't really see it. but ok... (you'd think the director or myself could see it.) the MOD gets to the lab and the frame counts match on the sound negative and the film negative. on first viewing the film print, the sound is 2 frames EARLY. lab said it was film projectors, looping, etc. (if it was late, i guess we could attribute it to the difference between light and sound speeds) but it was seen on 5 different theaters. each one, 2 frames early.

i know you don't have all the info, but anybody run into this before? was there a mistake made in the DMU? is it a lab thing? something else?

thanks!
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