Thank you Scott, George and Dave for your helpful suggestions. It turns out that I can submit my negatives tape-spliced. I will order some fresh cement, too and practice my hot-splicing technique.
Thank you, Frameworks. I'd be adrift without you. CC Caryn Cline Experimental Filmmaker & Teacher vimeo.com/carynyc film still from "Hand-made" (2016) On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Dave Tetzlaff <[email protected]> wrote: > Excellent advice from Scott. The heat is just a drying time aid. Less > expensive glue splicers don’t have heaters. Glue splicing is all about > scraping technique, good cement, and technique in applying the cement > properly. It takes some practice to do it right, so newbies should > experiment on outs/trims/slug before cutting precious footage. > > But… I’m not sure glue splicing is what you’d want for digitizing from > negative. Historically, glue splices have been used for preparing A/B rolls > so the lab can create prints with invisible edit points. Thus, the splices > all involve a scraped lap of the negative being glued to a full from of > black. If you glue splice an ‘A’ roll, the splices will be quite visible. > If you’re going to digitize camera original, it makes no sense to create > your edits in the film stock. I would think you’d want to cut the sections > you want to digitize several frames long on each end, and tape splice them > together. The tape splices would show in the digitized footage, of course, > but then you just edit them out to the proper in/out points in an NLE. > > You could do the same with glue splices, of course, but the only reason I > can think of to do that is if they’d run through the gate of the scanner > more reliably. AFAIK, the flatness of a properly aligned tape splice would > be better than the bump of the lap in the glue splice, but I could be wrong > on that. > > Anybody have more knowledge on this? > > > Scott Dorsey wrote: > > It won't get very hot, it only gets slightly warm. And you can make a > perfectly good splice with it even if it's not warm, it just takes a lot > > longer to set. > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >
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