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Hey all, I am working on set with an Arri SR3 and had an issue I am hoping for insight on. We are shooting on the new Verita 7206 stock. When we loaded the mags on set and ran them, the camera was very loud and would jam within 50'. When the mag was pulled there was a cluster of tiny hairlike emulsion fibers in the gate and on the pulldown claw and registration pin. This happened with all four of our mags. At prep we ran scratch film through the camera to test the mags. The scratch film was 7219 and ran smooth. On set after a few mags had jammed we ran the scratch load of 7219 again to double-check and it still ran quietly. This led us to suspect something about the stock was different. We pulled some of the lost film out of the take up and did notice that there was an indentation at the top of the perfs. We thought this could be from the registration pin or pulldown claw striking just above the perf. I attempted to adjust the pitch but this didn't solve the problem. Eventually, we were able to switch camera bodies (using the same mags) and that resolved the issue. Later on I overlapped a strip of Verita over the scratch 7219 and to my eye the perfs seemed to be the same size and spacing. My question after this happened is, what may have been the issue with the first camera that would allow it to run 7219 but not the Verita? Is there a more coarse pitch adjustment that could have been done in the field compared to the small amount of throw allowed via the 2mm hex?