I'm buying an editor/viewer from one of the posters on this board and will be finishing some of my projects on film. I want a musical soundtrack (no lip-synched dialog) to accompany the moving image and since I have a sound projector capable of recording onto a mag stripe, I plan to soundstripe the film.
Should I edit the film first and then send off the finished product or should I invest more $$$ and have all of my rushes striped?
I am using presstapes to do the splicing.
Which method will work the best?
Tom
Soundstriping: before or after splicing?
Moderator: Andreas Wideroe
I think striping afterwards will be better since you will have less "loose ends"; it will hold better. But if will not be completely sure about your sound track until the last moment you will have to make a rough cut first and have that striped.
Why not edit on your PC/Mac, and cut the film afterwards??
Why not edit on your PC/Mac, and cut the film afterwards??
you should first finish your final "silent" cut, so that nothing is left to be changed. Then you stripe the complete film, including leaders, titels, credits etc. This way, you have a continuous sound tape on the film, providing the best possible audio quality without drop-outs at splices etc.
However, corrections are always possible afterwards, but it should be only an exeption. And they are not so easy, because sound and image have an offset of 18 frames. So, cutting a sound film afterwards will result in a not combining "jumping" in sound.
For splicing, I would not use press tapes. Those presstapes, that leave both soundtracks free does not provide "that" stability you may wish to have for a long-live end product. It´s recommended to stripe both sides, the balance stipe, too. Besides the possibility for stereo or duoplay use, you have better, plan parallel conditions in the gate area and for rewinding, too.
The most convienient way for splicing is the use of a quality cement splicer like the Bolex 8mm unit and fresh Kodak prof. cement. The Bolex produces splices without cement spots in the neighbour frames and without increasing the thickness of the material, like and tape splice must do. So the splices become very durable and run invisible and not hearable thru the projector gate and sound heads. This kind of splicers you can get at ebay for about 15...50 USD.
Before striping, you MUST clean your film with chemical pure gasoline, to remove any dirt or dust and the wax protection. This procedure is also rather critical when having tape splices. After striping, you should run your film 2 times thru a sound projector. The first magnetic abrasions will get off. After each run, clean the film chanel, heads and gate. Then lub your film and it is ready.
Pedro
However, corrections are always possible afterwards, but it should be only an exeption. And they are not so easy, because sound and image have an offset of 18 frames. So, cutting a sound film afterwards will result in a not combining "jumping" in sound.
For splicing, I would not use press tapes. Those presstapes, that leave both soundtracks free does not provide "that" stability you may wish to have for a long-live end product. It´s recommended to stripe both sides, the balance stipe, too. Besides the possibility for stereo or duoplay use, you have better, plan parallel conditions in the gate area and for rewinding, too.
The most convienient way for splicing is the use of a quality cement splicer like the Bolex 8mm unit and fresh Kodak prof. cement. The Bolex produces splices without cement spots in the neighbour frames and without increasing the thickness of the material, like and tape splice must do. So the splices become very durable and run invisible and not hearable thru the projector gate and sound heads. This kind of splicers you can get at ebay for about 15...50 USD.
Before striping, you MUST clean your film with chemical pure gasoline, to remove any dirt or dust and the wax protection. This procedure is also rather critical when having tape splices. After striping, you should run your film 2 times thru a sound projector. The first magnetic abrasions will get off. After each run, clean the film chanel, heads and gate. Then lub your film and it is ready.
Pedro
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