3 Aug
2014
3 Aug
'14
11:51 a.m.
Hello,
For people with less ambition to spend extra money on a monitoring
system, I actually suggest getting a range of common DCP trailers from
a projectionist, e.g. different programm types like dialog, action,
music, etc., extract the audio (which is possible as these trailers
are unencrypted), and play it on your monitoring system as a reference
to your own material.
Some "official" french sources for DCP trailers and
teasers :
http://www.projectionniste.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=105455#p105455
http://home-made-dcp.over-blog.fr/article-films-annonces-en-dcp-124262640.h…
(it's the same list)
We virtually never get "too loud" complaints
from our customers (besides
senior citizens who don't like anything loud) and I don't think we've ever
gotten a "too soft" complaint from sound nuts either, so I figure we're
doing something right here!
(almost) Same here… My colleagues and I try every now
and then to play
at 7 dolby level : if we do that it's far way too loud and people
complain. Even after a clean A/B chain equalization. We also do not
understand why features do not all end with same audio level (to be
understood as level for playing in the real life). Or the very large
difference between adv./trailers/teasers and features.
When using DCP-o-Matic, I check if center channel "peak" is around
-12db. Certainly not scientific enough but most of the time it ends with
a normal human bearable audio level. It becomes more difficult to
"predict" with 5.1 audio using phase inversion, as you need all the
channels to get not only a good balance but something human-understandable…
Best regards,
Gérald.