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Post #662810

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Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda
Parent topic
THX 1138 "preservations" + the 'THX 1138 Italian Cut' project (Released)
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Date created
2-Oct-2013, 10:43 AM

Sorry I've been off the forum for the past 2 or 3 weeks -- crazy busy at work and it's going to be like that until late December.

AUDIO:  Capture of the video is frame by frame using the workprinter, so it should be rock-steady.  However, the audio was captured by running the movie through a normal 16mm projector (in this case an Eiki), and just routing the speaker output directly into a DAT recorder.  Thus any wavering of the old projector will be reflected in the captured audio.  Your having to do a lot of manual work to sync the two comes as no surprise to me, as that is exactly what I had to do for PG and PSB.

MISALIGNED FRAME:  I'm not 100% sure what it is, but I think I know what it probably is.  Setting up the Workprinter requires aligning the motor with the camera/computer setup, otherwise frame capture can happen during frame transition.  I was very careful to align it with my chain as best as I could, and have not seen any frame-transition captures (which usually appear as streaks but can appear as other anomolies depending on where during the transition it happens to grab the frame).  My best guess is that this is a frame capture that happened a hair too early (or late), just as the frame was starting to move (or just before it stabilized), and resulted in a double image.  Hopefully there aren't many of them?