"Salt and Silicone" was print mastered at Todd-AO Burbank in May 2008 but when the decision to do a film-out with Dolby Digital theatrical audio was made I had to have the audio remixed/Dolby certified for the film-out at Todd-AO Hollywood. We re-mixed the audio for "Salt and Silicone" today (Dec 29, 2008) at Todd-AO Hollywood Stage 2 (very nice stage by the way, must mix here again) with mixer Aaron Levy and Dolby Tech Bryan Arenas. We mixed to a 35mm MOS in the tradition of mixing major motion pictures to a film print as opposed to mixing to an MOV or digital tape. Technically this should have the best sync to the 35mm answer prints which I will be reviewing at Deluxe next week. Both Dolby Digital and Analog Dolby SR tracks sound nice and full. I was a little concerned with the PQ of the 35mm MOS print (little dark and slightly cloudy) but this could simply be because we are looking at an MOS work print instead of an answer print, and because we are projecting from a dubbing projector, not a screening projector. I dropped the Magneto Optical disc to Hal Cohen at Efilm, he let me know that they will shoot the audio on to film on Monday. Hal I and both talked about "Slumdog Millionaire", we both think it is superior to all films out this year.
