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Author Topic: How many hours of 35mm film will an AW3 platter hold? Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 06-21-2010 12:13 PM                     quote: Carl Martin i'm planning on doubling them on a platter without joining them, so they take up less space and i have more control over when the second one starts. Why would you not have control as to when it starts if they're joined? Wouldn't you just hit the stop button to make it wait till you were ready to start?  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-22-2010 02:43 AM                        sure, i could do that, but then i'd have to be there to stop it, which is just one more thing to remember. plus, this way i can clean the projector between shows.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 06-22-2010 09:44 PM                     quote: Carl Martin sure, i could do that, but then i'd have to be there to stop it, which is just one more thing to remember. Or you could have it programmed to stop when the movie is over. That way, you don't have to do anything between shows and you've got a program setting to use for future double-ups like this.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-24-2010 02:50 AM                        i'm sure some automations can do that, but ours can't.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-27-2010 03:48 AM                     I've got both features with a 15min preview reel in between the two features all tied together on a AW3 deck and got close to 6 inches from edge of filmroll to edge of deck to spare. Also, it's all cued so that when that print is heading through 5 P35 Christies on an interlock, it will go nonstop from start to finish, so the lights will come up half during credits and play half through the previews, then come down when the 2nd feature begins and ends about 11:30pm. Then, the real fun begins afterwards: 7 P35 units are going to be getting one "Eclipse" print on one side of the building, two houses will get another print, 3 houses will get another print, one house on digital, and the final house will play one by itself. it's gonna be a crazy night..... - Monte  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-27-2010 10:53 AM                        Monte, you are the only one here who described HOW you interlocked or are planning on interlocking. I asked 7 months ago how many houses people ended up interlocking with a single print. Nobody answered. I guess they were ashamed.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-27-2010 12:56 PM                     Guess I have fun with interlocking since it's quite the challenge to acccomplih since when you hit that start button, everything MUST work. thx-Monte  |  IP: Logged

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