Re: [DCP-o-matic] DCP without sound

Am 06.11.2014 um 20:24 schrieb Wolfgang Woehl: Well, basically there is nothing wrong with 2channel sound for cinema - if it's used only where appropriate. Yesterday, I had to do a DCP without any sound, because it was meant to be played like this. The minimum formal requirement is to have a 2channel MXF file padded with silence. Today I converted a piece that came in stereo, yet had only dialog, recorded with a stereo microphone. I mixed it down to a monotrack and converted it into an LCRS file with only the center populated with the voice. Nothing wrong about the tools being able to do that. For all general purposes - yes, I certainly would prefer even amateurs to be able to create at least L/C/R mixes, and it's not even that complicated. They do not even need to have an L/C/R monitor setup. It's easy to understand why so much 2ch stuff is produced, beginning with stereo microphones on common recording devices being used for dialog. And complete lack of understanding for the basic principles, not only for cinema sound. - Carsten