How should I splice sound-movie? Just like regular and just grind away the sound stripe or what...
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Sound spliceing
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It can get kind of complicated!:
If it's a commercial film, there's a substantial chance it is on a polyester base and you have to splice it with tape (no cement!). If it was shot on Fuji stock, it's a certainty.
If it's an acetate based film you can probably splice it via normal cement splicing methods, but you'd have to be careful to make sure the stripe is still firmly bonded when you finish.
All tape splices should leave the stripe exposed or there will be a dropout when the tape passes the sound heads.
If it's a commercial film, there's a substantial chance it is on a polyester base and you have to splice it with tape (no cement!). If it was shot on Fuji stock, it's a certainty.
If it's an acetate based film you can probably splice it via normal cement splicing methods, but you'd have to be careful to make sure the stripe is still firmly bonded when you finish.
All tape splices should leave the stripe exposed or there will be a dropout when the tape passes the sound heads.
Does this mean I won't be able to cement splice fuji Single-8 film?you have to splice it with tape (no cement!). If it was shot on Fuji stock, it's a certainty.
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That' s right: Fuji's Single-8 is polyester based and splicing cement will not bond it.
Another factor to keep in mind is that since the sound leads the image by 18 frames you have to be careful where you cut. You can wind up with a brief period when the sound from a scene you may have even thrown away is playing over the beginning of a new image (or other interesting/disturbing effects). Therefore you have to keep both the sound and the image in your head when you edit.
Another factor to keep in mind is that since the sound leads the image by 18 frames you have to be careful where you cut. You can wind up with a brief period when the sound from a scene you may have even thrown away is playing over the beginning of a new image (or other interesting/disturbing effects). Therefore you have to keep both the sound and the image in your head when you edit.