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If you ever find a print with white-out or shoe polish to mark the splices, here's what you should do: Have the shipping depot track the print, and pay a visit to the last theatre that had it. Determin if they were the shoe polish users. If not, contue to the previous theatre, and so on. Once you found the culprit theatre, beat the operators with a 2x4!

Solid yellow tape (this is called opaque tape, right guys??) will show up on screen, even if only breifly. I would not recomend using it.

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Aaron

First off...if you use solid opaque splicing tape (yellow, white or what have you) for your splices...get out of the booth...you are really bad. It really pisses me off that those sort of booths operate and contribute to the deterioration of the quality shows in the industry. If you can't see a flagged splice (zebra, splice marked or home made) then once again, you are not good enough to handle the film. Many operators have no problem dealing with just clear tape, without the flagging of some sort. Kelmar had an interesting tape one that was clear but would glow purple under "blacklight"....it never caught on though.

Next...as to digital drop outs...it has nothing to do with the opaqueness of the tape...you can use an opaque tape (the full 1" variety) and not have a digital drop out...the problem isn't that the tape is opaque but that the film is both misaligned and out of focus when the spice goes through...any tape will though the film out of focus from the reader's standpoint. How well the two ends of the film are aligned and how well the tape is trimmed will affect how hard the reader has to work to "find" the data block...when these two items are combined dropouts occur. Splicemark's virtue is NOT the magenta color nor that it has a thin side that doesn't cover the digital data but that it is notably less wide (19mm?) so as to not have the data out of focus as long.

As far as tape goes, Neumade makes an excellent tape...it's adhesive virtues are well noted. It does not stick to oily film though which I don't find a problem since one should clean the oil off the splice area first anyway.

I have been testing CPI's splice mark. It has the nice virtue of being less wide. It only affects two perforations on each side of the splice. An added bonus is that either 6-hole or 5-hole splicers will now make the same splice. The 1" tape normally ends up only partially covering the last hole on each side. The tape seems very clear as compared to Neumade. It peels off as easy as Neumade's at the end of the run and seems a bit thinner and runs through the projector quieter. My wish would be that the flagging would be in white rather than magenta. I don't have any long-term results yet but I'm still working with it.

Steve

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