Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: New Film Calculator program on my web site

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Posted by Stewart Anderson (Member # 1809) on 01-30-2004, 09:33 PM:

Hi everyone,
I got board in the booth a couple weeks ago so I upgraded my film calculator program and now here I am board again in the booth so I decided to make this thread. Anyway here is the link and a screen shot:

Download

Posted by Jack Ondracek (Member # 1466) on 01-30-2004, 10:15 PM:

Ummmmmm.... aren't there a few more frames per foot than 4????

Now, frames per cue mark... [Big Grin]

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 01-31-2004, 11:25 AM:

He has the calculation prefrences set up for 15/70. He runs a 15/70 booth.
Mark

Posted by Travis Hubrig (Member # 1745) on 01-31-2004, 04:53 PM:

Good, I've been waiting for this.

Now I can list total frames instead of running time on my performance schedule. [Wink]

Posted by Jack Ondracek (Member # 1466) on 01-31-2004, 05:35 PM:

quote:
He runs a 15/70 booth

We're going to need bigger platters!

Posted by Stewart Anderson (Member # 1809) on 01-31-2004, 05:56 PM:

I was really just pulling numbers out of thin air for the screen shot...

This program is mainly intended for people who have to add or remove large format trailers and do all of those conversions and calculations for synchronizing sound and picture.

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 01-31-2004, 06:13 PM:

When I tried running it on win98 it came back with a error of incorrect Java package

Posted by Stewart Anderson (Member # 1809) on 01-31-2004, 06:20 PM:

Interesting, I wrote it using Windows XP, but then I did test it on Windows 95. You might have had a fault in the download from angelfire.com, or it could also be your Java VM. You can download a new Java VM for free from Microsoft (I think)...

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 01-31-2004, 06:37 PM:

tried re downloading it and it says there is also a size mismatch

Posted by Stewart Anderson (Member # 1809) on 01-31-2004, 07:30 PM:

Very very weird...

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 02-02-2004, 12:42 AM:

Downloaded fast & easy & works fine here!
Kewl.

Ya oughta make one to calculate silent film fps rates from feet per minute references & overall running times!

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 02-02-2004, 08:35 AM:

The Kodak website also has an on-line "Film Calculator" for all current formats:

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/support/index.jhtml

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 02-03-2004, 12:40 AM:

quote:
The Kodak website also has an on-line "Film Calculator" for all current formats:

"Film Calculator
Calculate how much time you have left "

There's a Twilight Zone episode in there: the film calculator which tells a guy how much time he's got left.

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 02-03-2004, 07:26 PM:

Why on earth would you write that in java! Java, along with cable select, is the root of all evil! You must have had to much java.

Posted by Stewart Anderson (Member # 1809) on 02-05-2004, 11:25 AM:

Java is easy, and I was going to need the program the next day...(I was adding/taking away trailers on one of our 15/70 films). I actually prefer "old school" C (Win32 API) when I have time...

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 02-05-2004, 07:52 PM:

Maybe you should go back to the steakhouse business! [Razz]

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 02-05-2004, 10:04 PM:

write it in rexx then us OS2 users can compile it easily [Smile]

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 02-05-2004, 10:24 PM:

How about if I just sync it all up manually and get it right the first time?

Posted by Stewart Anderson (Member # 1809) on 02-06-2004, 09:01 PM:

Thats why I wrote it...

Steve - steakhouse???

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 02-06-2004, 09:12 PM:

Stewart,
Steve has never been out here(as has Mr. Bond) so he is unaware that there are no Stewart Anderson's Steak Houses around here. In reality we have much better than that anyway (as Mr. Bond did find out)! If he could leave those two Simplex's for a week or so perhaps he'd find out all that.

Mark @ CLACO

Posted by Jesse August (Member # 1798) on 02-06-2004, 09:14 PM:

[beer]

to manual sync works every time.

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 02-06-2004, 09:17 PM:

Jessie,
I heard from a friend in Calgary that you guys up there in Manitoba get pretty rowdy after a few [beer]

s. Is this true?

Mark @ CLACO

Posted by Stewart Anderson (Member # 1809) on 02-06-2004, 09:28 PM:

I forgot about that restaurant.

Posted by Jesse August (Member # 1798) on 02-07-2004, 05:57 PM:

Mark
Very true indeed. Why just last night me and the boys tied one on. Not much else to do when it's -30 c.
[beer]

then

then

not always in that order.

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 02-07-2004, 06:31 PM:

Stuart Anderson's Black Angus & Cattle Company has locations in Midvale, Orem, and Sandy, UT, and one in Boise, ID. They did retrench from the midwest except MN however.