Mixed movie aspect trailers to export for cinema projection
by Faruk Ozturkmen
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Jun 24, 2009 at 10:22:39 pm
Hi
I am new to this. My client send me 12 current movie trailers and wants me to add them all up with his still image logo between each trailer. I have done all that but what export settings I need for a commercial cinema projection?
This is for public viewing in a commercial cinema as commercials between the feature movie they come to see. So my export quality must match.
If you are going to ask me the aspect ratio of the screen to be previewed, I don't know. It is a commercial cinema where you can watch any movie.
Here is the list of the movies :
Frame Size = 1280 x 608 - 82078613.mov cloudy with a chance of meatballs.mov
Frame Size = 852 x 460 HannahMontana_Tr1_480.mov - hannah Montana.mov
Frame Size = 854 x 460 paulblartmallcop_trlr_01_480p_dl.mov Paul bart Mall Cop.mov
Frame Size = 848 x 360 17again_trlr_01_480p_dl.mov 17 Again.mov
Frame Size = 852 x 460 74659420.mov - Pink Panther.mov
Frame Size = 852 x 362 74659874.mov Monsters Vs Aliens.mov
Frame Size = 852 x 480 videos75302106.mov up.mov
Frame Size = 852 x 460 75365430.mov coraline.mov
Frame Size = 852 x 460 videos76163226.mov Ice Age 3.mov
Frame Size = 852 x 362 77159918.mov night at the museum 2.mov
Image Size: 704 x 576 G-Force.vob
Image Size: 704 x 576 surrogates.vob
I have a dead line this afternoon and was wondering someone could advise please.
Re: Mixed movie aspect trailers to export for cinema projection by Vince Becquiot on Jun 24, 2009 at 11:55:45 pm
There are many aspect ratios out there for film, and the screens are adjusted for each film. 2 common ones, 1.85:1 and 2.40:1. But is this going to be projected through an LCD type projector? And most importantly, what is this going to be played on, a DVD?
Then, why not just pick 16:9? Either 720x480 Widescreen for a DVD, and you will have to probably zoom in and out on most of these to get them to fit the frame exactly. Or create a 1280x720 square pixel project if this is going through a computer.
Re: Mixed movie aspect trailers to export for cinema projection by Faruk Ozturkmen on Jun 25, 2009 at 12:05:02 am
Thanks for your quick response Vince,
I know I should have asked my client but 'assumed' (and never assume) that all cinemas might have more or less similar out put given what is out there as far as commercial feature films. Out put will be looped DVD. Screen I am not sure but 'assume ' it will be a video projector of some type.
In the mean time I am outputting at PAL 1440x1080 25fps quality 4 (mpg2).
I have tried wide format but this created all around wide black border. Because I have various different size formats all mixed 1440x1080 seems to fit reasonable well within the screen format. I am now only worried its out put quality/compression as I do not want to deteriorate it any further then then what the originals were.
I have a few minutes left to see the results but then again results will be seen on my monitor not on the big screen.
Re: Mixed movie aspect trailers to export for cinema projection by Brian Louis on Jun 25, 2009 at 6:42:36 pm
[Faruk Ozturkmen]"If you are going to ask me the aspect ratio of the screen to be previewed, I don't know. It is a commercial cinema where you can watch any movie." It would be a good idea to find out what the native resolution of the projector is, Comercial Cinema" is ambigious, some scale nicely some don't, if you want to get an idea owhat its about, do a search for "commercial cinema projector"
