"Club Penton" - Ask questions to Hollywood insider "Penton-Man"

[Bobby Henderson]

One of my ex-girlfriends has a striking resemblance to Zooey Deschanel except this ex is a natural red head. She lived up to that hot tempered stereotype, which is one of the reasons why we're not dating anymore.

[Jeff Kleist]

I still don't know how you go to Victoria's Secret and the Playboy party and still have a bed to sleep in Penton

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by Bobby Henderson

One of my ex-girlfriends has a striking resemblance to Zooey Deschanel except this ex is a natural red head. She lived up to that hot tempered stereotype, which is one of the reasons why we're not dating anymore.

Yeah, but, the hot blooded Readheads are........

[Dennis M]

Penton,

I just picked of Terrance Mallick's Days of Heaven and found a wonderful section "About the Transfer" within the booklet.

Days of Heaven is presented in the filmakers'perfered aspect ratio of 1.78:1. On standard televisions, the image will appear letterboxed. On widescreen televisions, the image should fill the screen. Created from a 35mm interpositive struck from the 35mm A/B roll original negative, this high-definition digital transfer was supervised and approved by director Terrance Mallick, original camera operator and renowned cinematographer John Bailey, and editor Billy Weber. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, and wraps were manually removed using MTI's DRS system, flicker was removed with Pixel Farm's PFClean system; and Digital Vision's DVNR system was used for small dirt, grain, and noise reduction.

The surround soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from the original 4.1 magnetic track. Clicks, thumps, his, and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD. Crackle was attenuated using AudioCube's integrated audio workstation.

Telecine supervisiors: John Bailey, Lee Kline, Terrance Mallick, Maris Palazzola, Billy Weber

Telecine colorist: Gregg Garvin/Modern Videofilm, Los Angeles

Blu-ray disc mastering: Radius60, Los angeles


I was wondering if we could see something similar from Sony for premier titles like Lawrence of Arabia?

PS. Shark, yes you are getting predictable.

[Jeff Kleist]

and Digital Vision's DVNR system was used for small dirt, grain, and noise reduction.

Criterion! Is this a dagger I see before me?

[Dennis M]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

Criterion! Is this a dagger I see before me?

That little line got my attention as well.

Won't know how I feel about it till I get to watch it this weekend. But I have an feeling, considering who was involved, things should be fine.

Plus RAH gave this transfer a ringing endorsement.

[kpkelley]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

Criterion! Is this a dagger I see before me?

Originally Posted by Dennis M

That little line got my attention as well.

Won't know how I feel about it till I get to watch it this weekend. But I have an feeling, considering who was involved, things should be fine.

Plus RAH gave this transfer a ringing endorsement.

That line has been in most if not all of the booklets. Transfers have not suffered because of it.

[wallendo]

Originally Posted by Dennis M

Penton,

I just picked of Terrance Mallick's Days of Heaven and found a wonderful section "About the Transfer" within the booklet.

...


I was wondering if we could see something similar from Sony for premier titles like Lawrence of Arabia?

PS. Shark, yes you are getting predictable.

I remember back in the vinyl days that many albums would list the mastering engineer on the album covers if not the disks themselves. A few of these guys were quite famous and respected.

I wonder if it would help quality if the people involved in making BD's also got credit for their work.

such as ...
Video master by Mr. X
Compression by Mr. Y
DNR'd to death by Mr. Z (on orders from Executive A, and approved by Director B)

I would hope that all people involved in production of a BD would take pride in their work and want to receive credit where credit is due. It might also make them think twice before turning up the dial.

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Oh man, I wish I hadn’t written that last paragraph ^ in the P.S. because I feel I just encouraged Shark to post a classic Tony Montana quote.

From the theatrical or the TV version?

This city is like one big chicken just waiting to be plucked!

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Diesel

Some of those 1M+ views are surely geared towards trying to unmask you

Geez, I hope there’s not some bounty out on me which I’m unaware of.
Amir once claimed I cut hair on the Sony lot and thusly was privy to inside info from loose-lipped senior executives. Well he was close, I supply and clean out the locker rooms here, Amir ………
http://www.sonypicturesstudios.com/s...athletics.html

People say I’m a real hard arse because my motto is - EVERYONE ONLY GETS ONE TOWEL……NO EXCEPTIONS!
And I watch ‘em like a hawk!

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Bobby Henderson

One of my ex-girlfriends has a striking resemblance to Zooey Deschanel except this ex is a natural red head. She lived up to that hot tempered stereotype, which is one of the reasons why we're not dating anymore.

Well, I hear they’ve got your 24p upgrade for your 5D (with a fix for the audio bug), so if you guys ever get back together, we want to see a 2D clip from your 5D!

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Dennis M

I was wondering if we could see something similar from Sony for premier titles like Lawrence of Arabia?

Talking about grain and noise reduction for LoA?
I think you would sooner see sand from Aqaba in the packaging.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

I still don't know how you go to Victoria's Secret and the Playboy party and still have a bed to sleep in Penton

Well it helps that she can hang (in terms of looks) with some of the best of them.
And she's smarter than me.

I’ve only had to sleep on the couch once, and that wasn’t really my fault as there was
no “coveting” or “propositioning” going on. While in France with my wife attending a Tour de France from several years back, I was in the hotel bar and simply asking directions of a beautiful woman as to what was the best route to get out of town after the individual stage ended in order to beat the Tour de France support and media caravan to the next Stage, which if they get in front of you, can be a royal headache.

It wasn’t my fault that everyone (apparently but me) in the bar “knew that she was a high-priced call girl”. All I’ll admit to is practicing my French…………..speaking. You know what I mean.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

Criterion! Is this a dagger I see before me?

Let’s further scare the hell out of Jeff K., Oliver K and others shall we?

If you don’t want to read the whole article then just read the first paragraph and then scroll down to the paragraph with the guys in full dress wearing the sashes and pointed helmets while on horseback (it starts with the words “More significantly……”, and read that –

http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.c...hines-for-fox/

[Penton-Man]

https://forum.blu-ray.com/3096936-post12918.html

^ He says you guys should Google this phrase- A completed quest for computing power and reliability... and look for something by Dell.

It’s apparently some PDF file or Power Point presentation from what I understand. I must admit though, at first glance, I don’t quite get the association of that phrase and LOTR.

Anyway, somebody find it and post it. Gotta run.

[Icemage]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Amir once claimed I cut hair on the Sony lot and thusly was privy to inside info from loose-lipped senior executives. Well he was close, I supply and clean out the locker rooms here, Amir ………
http://www.sonypicturesstudios.com/s...athletics.html

I had heard that the first rule of being in the Insider's Club was that you don't talk about the Insider's Club?

People say I’m a real hard arse because my motto is - EVERYONE ONLY GETS ONE TOWEL……NO EXCEPTIONS!
And I watch ‘em like a hawk!

Well at least they'll be prepared if the world gets blown up.

EDIT: Oh, and I know for a fact that you're better placed than a simple custodian, P-Man, due to an exchange we had in PMs quite a while back about a related topic which I shall not mention by name.

[horseflesh]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

I think you would sooner see sand from Aqaba in the packaging.

Hey, that was my idea!!!!

[Jeff Kleist]

Geez, I hope there’s not some bounty out on me which I’m unaware of.

*whistles*

Amir once claimed I cut hair on the Sony lot and thusly was privy to inside info from loose-lipped senior executives. Well he was close, I supply and clean out the locker rooms here, Amir ………

There were also those who thought you merely supervised student beauticians with laser precision in a collegiate poolside setting as well, but that hypothesis has long been debunked The fact that the person in question enjoys putting bicycles in his movies made it hang on longer than it should have though

I think you would sooner see sand from Aqaba in the packaging.

Actually one of the coolest bonuses I've gotten was in a game called World in Conflict, narrated by Alec Baldwin, the game features a fictional USSR invasion of Seattle. Inside is a piece of the Berlin Wall

[micks_address]

i'm pretty sure the cover art on the disc i ordered said directors cut?

Originally Posted by kpkelley

Running Time is listed at 134min, The director's Cut is 144.

[Oliver K]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Let’s further scare the hell out of Jeff K., Oliver K and others shall we?

If you don’t want to read the whole article then just read the first paragraph and then scroll down to the paragraph with the guys in full dress wearing the sashes and pointed helmets while on horseback (it starts with the words “More significantly……”, and read that –

http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.c...hines-for-fox/

Indeed you managed to do just that

I am not so much shocked about additional care for the opticals but about the 2k scan for two prestiguous 65mm productions.

That sounds very strange to me when recently 65mm productions that made it to Blu-Ray have moved up to an 8k scan, including South Pacific from Fox. Even Patton was scanned in 4k before the 'wizard' with the fancy software had a go at it.

Fwiw I think that a 4k scan that gets reduced to BR resolution could already yield good results especially if 'only' a Blu-Ray is the intended end product but with 4k projection gaining a strong momentum in the markt I would prefer for work to be done in 8k to really extract all of the relevant detail from the OCN and to also allow for 4k projection where I expect 65mm originated movies to shine. BTW: I am still waiting for 4k to make it into consumer projectors with higher on/off CR and I have a little hope that the introduction of 3D to the home theater market might help with that