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Author Topic: SPECO Brain Wrap Rollers Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-03-2004 03:38 AM                     The LP270 does not have adjustable motor height and needs no timing. Running soundtrack up on an LP270 does not cause scratches. That was an operator error you witnessed.  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 12-06-2004 09:50 AM                     Happy ending: We are extending our leaders to 100 ft. My boss is putting in the order this week.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-06-2004 12:47 PM                     Very cool, now what kind of automation do you have? Does it have a "start cue" capability?  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-06-2004 03:31 PM                     Also if the projectors are equiped with a slow start motor control so the machine ramps up to speed I havn't seen a wrapping problem  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 12-06-2004 05:39 PM                     Maxi 12X-PC, the only start cue I know of is the "start-all" cue for interlocking.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-06-2004 07:48 PM                     Then you will have to have your guys flip the motor switch on, then at a predetermined point on the leader, press the START button and turn the motor switch off.  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 12-07-2004 05:48 PM                     I was expecting that. We used to have strangely dedicated projectionists who would do that with our sixty foot leader, but then the people breaking down trailer packs started chopping frames instead of peeling, and the motor-start practice became incovenient.  |  IP: Logged Bill Langfield Master Film Handler Posts: 280 From: Prospect, NSW, Australia Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-08-2004 09:57 AM                        This might be a useless answer, but, whatever. (Brad's answer was the winner - that works) However, at the Arthouse, we have a 60 second rundown of an old film ad, while an overture is playing on the dat player while the house lights change colour, the main curtain opens, then the trailer hits as the silks open. At the mainstream, yeah, same problem as discussed in the thread. It really just equals, No presentation. (ie no curtains, no lighting effects, no overture) Surely the longer 'countdown' using an old ad is the answer (to the scraching problem) though. The only time we need to 'help' the Speco's to get up to speed is when running feature only 70mm. I love that stuff - it's been too long. Last one was Titannic (DTS only dual players), almost got Mad....World but they balked at the price of special lens it needed. DOh. Bill.  |  IP: Logged

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