out of curiousity, i compared the dsr with the hdtv pretty closely. what it looks like is some fairly
creative editing on the part of abc. i am just assuming they did this because ad time is more expensive on
abc, and they wanted to maximize their revenue. in any case, both versions were encoded at 24fps. and
up until about 5:14 they track exactly (right where the directed by appears in the scene in adam baylin\'s
study). at this point, the dsr (abc family) and hdtv (abc) start falling out of sync. by the end of the
scene in the study, the dsr is at 6:32.36 and the hdtv is at 6:26.80 - about 5.5 seconds difference. if it
keeps up the pace of this over the remaining almost 38 minutes of the dsr version, the hdtv version
should be 2:55 shorter than the dsr version. in fact, the hdtv is only about 1:50 shorter than the dsr
version (after cutting them to the exact same start and end points).
they could acheive this by (1) subtly speeding up the video in the hdtv version (a small enough shift to
go unnoticed) and (2) making slightly faster cuts on some scenes. on average they would only have to trim
about 2.9 seconds per minute of tape to do this - less if they did speed the tape up slightly. a 2.5% speed
up would account for about 57 seconds of the deficit, and then they would only have to cut a second and a
half out of every minute (on average). obviously, this has to be done where there is no dialog, and the
background soundtrack would have to be shifted also.
creative editing on the part of abc. i am just assuming they did this because ad time is more expensive on
abc, and they wanted to maximize their revenue. in any case, both versions were encoded at 24fps. and
up until about 5:14 they track exactly (right where the directed by appears in the scene in adam baylin\'s
study). at this point, the dsr (abc family) and hdtv (abc) start falling out of sync. by the end of the
scene in the study, the dsr is at 6:32.36 and the hdtv is at 6:26.80 - about 5.5 seconds difference. if it
keeps up the pace of this over the remaining almost 38 minutes of the dsr version, the hdtv version
should be 2:55 shorter than the dsr version. in fact, the hdtv is only about 1:50 shorter than the dsr
version (after cutting them to the exact same start and end points).
they could acheive this by (1) subtly speeding up the video in the hdtv version (a small enough shift to
go unnoticed) and (2) making slightly faster cuts on some scenes. on average they would only have to trim
about 2.9 seconds per minute of tape to do this - less if they did speed the tape up slightly. a 2.5% speed
up would account for about 57 seconds of the deficit, and then they would only have to cut a second and a
half out of every minute (on average). obviously, this has to be done where there is no dialog, and the
background soundtrack would have to be shifted also.
