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Author Topic: Splicing together black cells Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: California, U.S.A. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 09-22-2005 03:02 AM                     On out of frame splices: quote: Monte L Fullmer (..wonder if anyone know how to fix a misframe splice during the scrolling credits.....) You have to look very very hard at the picture to see where the letters cut short because of the frameline. Though if you can see it's off by a certain amount on the sreen you can pretty much hack it shorter by that amount. It's quick and dirty but it works. For everything else you should count back from where you know it's in frame. It's preferable that you do this at the bench and not on the platter since it's about 10x more of a pain in the ass. On new trailers you can usually get away with counting back from the crud on the leader. Heed Brad's advice. Negative splices suck! And I think everyone above has already covered feature leaders. On the splicer method: I've been using the splicer method to count frames. Most splicers I've used are 8 frames wide. On cue placement: All our machines are the same configuration so I count the distance from where cues are detected in relation to the film in the gate. I then add 5 frames to compensate for delay. This way the lights go down exactly when they should and come up just as the credits roll. --Dom  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-22-2005 03:23 AM                        it's a good idea to examine the entire stretch of black between the trailer fade-out and where you intend to cut, backlit. those negative splices can be rather arbitrarily located. sometimes there'll even be a frame that says "tail" in the middle of the black where it's easy not to see it until it's on screen. pretty superfluous if you ask me. speaking of splices in the credits. i got a film once (biggie and tupac) that had a lab splice in the credits. i only checked for the frameline in one direction when i removed that splice, and sure enough it popped out of frame when it ran. the lab splice must have jumped a sprocket during printing. carl  |  IP: Logged

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