The dying art and craft of cement splicing certainly is dying. I believe there are only a few of us who know how to operate a cement splicer.
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Caryn Cline <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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