[Tig] t/c on pirated feature

[Steve Hullfish]

I doubt it was the timecode itself. Most films have a hidden code  
burned in to several of the frames of each and every print that  
identify the specific print, like a serial number on a dollar bill,  
so that it can be tracked. Sometimes I can even spot these small  
sequence of dots - and I'm not talking about the big dots that tell  
when to change the reel. They seem to be reddish in color. They're in  
a pattern that changes over the course of a few frames usually hidden  
in a fairly complex and fast moving scene.

I have cut trailers for films and I know the video versions I get can  
be tracked directly to me and they don't have visible timecode on them.

The video copies of films for the trailer and EPK guys could also  
have stuff hidden in the vertical interval, like subtitles or  
timecode as well.


Steve Hullfish
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On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:47 AM, Rob Lingelbach wrote:

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> I recently read in an article about the extraordinary security in  
> protecting _Dark_Knight_ (if i recall the name of the film  
> correctly) prevented it from being pirated before its release in  
> theaters.  The same article mentioned another film that had been  
> leaked/pirated several days before release, and that because there  
> was a time code window in the image, that its origin was traced to  
> post-production.   I was curious if there might be some kind of  
> marker, or shall I say something unique about the t/c window  
> itself, that would have allowed the actual system/facility that was  
> responsible for the leak, to be identified.
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