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Topic: Changing Trailers on a Platter

Brady Wilson
Film Handler

Posts: 3
From: Mackay, Queensland/North, Australia
Registered: Jun 2007

posted 02-18-2008 09:04 AM

[ 02-18-2008, 11:03 PM: Message edited by: Brady Wilson ]

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Chris Slycord
Film God

Posts: 2986
From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea
Registered: Mar 2007

posted 02-18-2008 10:49 AM

Brady,

I'd be more comfortable doing the method you've described ENTIRELY when the movie has stopped.

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Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 02-18-2008 02:07 PM

I stopped reading right here...

quote: Brady Wilson
Whilst we have that ring of film on the bench , We put the smaller sized ring into the centre of the film, and simply spin it onto the smaller centre ring.

Bad projectionist! Bad! That puts cinch scratches in the print as the film is slipping on itself.

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Brady Wilson
Film Handler

Posts: 3
From: Mackay, Queensland/North, Australia
Registered: Jun 2007

posted 02-18-2008 07:32 PM

[ 02-18-2008, 11:03 PM: Message edited by: Brady Wilson ]

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Andy Muirhead
Master Film Handler

Posts: 323
From: Galashiels, Scotland
Registered: Dec 2000

posted 02-18-2008 07:51 PM

I'd actually love to read Brady's post, but sadly I'm too tired to decipher the code used. I think the key is to split it into paragraphs.

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Brady Wilson
Film Handler

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From: Mackay, Queensland/North, Australia
Registered: Jun 2007

posted 02-18-2008 07:58 PM

[ 02-18-2008, 11:02 PM: Message edited by: Brady Wilson ]

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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 02-18-2008 08:55 PM

Brady, read up in the archives. There are many well documented ways to do this faster than you are doing now without the film damage that IS happening. Just because your particular theater does not have enough light on the screen to be able to see it doesn't mean that the next person to get that print won't either. (Even if your response is "all of our screens are flawlessly putting out 16fl of light" doesn't mean someone else won't run it at 20fl.) The key is never damage film, no matter how minor.

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Phil Blake
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 558
From: esperance western australia
Registered: Nov 2003

posted 02-19-2008 04:39 AM

Brady get yourself a Film Spinner , makes trailer changing a piece of cake , do a change in a couple of minutes safely without any risk of film damage. It is also very handy for fixing the results of head wrap issues.

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Michael Brown
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1522
From: Bradford, England
Registered: May 2001

posted 06-22-2008 10:07 PM

quote: Thomas Pitt
after changing the trailer, run the film backwards through the brain onto the platter again.

You need to get this idea of film running back into the center of the platter out of your head, because it aint happening.

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 06-22-2008 11:42 PM

Here's a fact to chew on: removing a trailer (not replacing) is about 100 times quicker on a platter than it could ever be on a reel.

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Galen Murphy-Fahlgren
Master Film Handler

Posts: 405
From: Canton, MI, USA
Registered: Oct 2007

posted 06-23-2008 12:00 AM

I almost always change trailers on my AW3 equipped theaters, and I just load them to a Potts ring, which has a much smaller diameter, and drop them in. For once, having Potts platters pays off.

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Mike Blakesley
Film God

Posts: 12767
From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 06-23-2008 09:54 AM

quote: Peter David Bruce
i remove the ring, flick thru til i find the head of that trailer, break the join and remove the tape, flick thru to the foot of the trailer, and do the same. then i grab both sides of the trailer (head and foot) and literally pull it out, leaving a lovely even circle gap in there. i join the loose foot and head of the 'keep' film and then go about the rest of my changes.

I've never done this and could see doing it in an emergency, but I would bet it could scratch the hell out of the trailer. How do you get the trailer back on to a core?

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Chris Slycord
Film God

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From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea
Registered: Mar 2007

posted 06-23-2008 10:24 AM

Using that method the trailer should look the same as in the "Winding and Storing Trailers" section of Cutting Trailers Properly

Though I've only personally used that method for removing trailers that weren't going to be stored.

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Bryan M. Montgomery
Film Handler

Posts: 47
From: Chillicothe, Ohio
Registered: Jul 2007

posted 06-24-2008 02:49 PM

If you run with the Strong/Potts platters, get one of thier larger 19" rings, a bit expensive, but worth it. Run your feature onto one of these rings,now make up your new trailer pack onto the normal 13" ring and set aside, at show end pull the large ring and pull the old trailer pack out, now place the new trailers, ring and all in the center and connect the ends. Easy. I also run all newly built features onto the larger rings to facilitate an easy fix of any rare bad splices that usually occur in the trailers if it ever happens.

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Monte L Fullmer
Film God

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From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004

posted 06-24-2008 03:26 PM

quote: Bryan M. Montgomery
get one of thier larger 19" rings, a bit expensive, but worth it.

..or, if the budget is tight for booth accessories, wind 8inches worth of old trailers on a spare ring and duct tape the entire roll closed...works either way....

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