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Author Topic: Putting together films with clear tape? Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-10-2004 10:15 PM                     quote: Jason M Miller I know if I use the clear the person that has to break it down will get pissed and yell at me. One possible answer to the person who accosts you about using clear tape: "Maybe, if you didn't jack off so G**damm much, you wouldn't be so BLIND and you could SEE the splices!" Seriously, now... Go ahead and use clear tape but take a red Sharpie marker and color in the sprocket holes on the off-soundtrack side of the film so that the red mark stands out enough to see or at least so you can tell reel change splices from repair splices. (Make sure you make the marks on the tape and not the film!) If you wait a few seconds for the ink to dry before you continue on, no marks will transfer to other layers of film when it gets wound up on the platter. Neither will FilmGuard remove the ink in normal use. This is one of the "training wheels" I use to teach my students to find splices when breaking down. After a while they get lazy and stop using the marker. If my college Work Study kids can learn how to find splices, your coworker can! (Even if he IS spankin'-the-monkey-blind!)  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-11-2004 02:37 AM                        quote: Brad Miller Personally I think you will find that marking the "fill line" on the reel a better solution for assisting with finding the splice. to be sure, i do that as well. that'll get you in the neighborhood. feeling the film will help you find the address. carl  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-11-2004 03:16 AM                        How do you expect Carl to get his together enough to send in a picture when he can't even navigate a SHIFT key? P.S. That was sarcasm.  |  IP: Logged Edward Jurich Master Film Handler Posts: 305 From: Las Vegas USA Registered: Jul 2003 posted 08-11-2004 05:38 PM                     I use clear tape. But first put a small piece of yellow tape on the edge of the film next to the sound track. Then complete splicing with clear tape on both sides. The yellow edge is easy to see same as if the entire splice was yellow tape. I don't like using tiger tape, the tiger tape I've seen isn't as clear as clear tape.  |  IP: Logged

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