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Author Topic: T3, Reel 6 Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 07-02-2003 01:22 AM                        Starts black. You're into it about half a foot or so before the first image. Using a leader from another reel will show you where the ref frame is (unless you have a frame counter). the start is also a little gray, if you look carefully.  |  IP: Logged Peter Kerchinsky Master Film Handler Posts: 326 From: Seattle, WA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 07-02-2003 04:04 AM                     We opened T3 tonight (Tues.) and I had to rush building the print since I don't work all day. I ran into this and really had to strain to find where to cut that reel. Also got a print of Legally Blonde 2, in which one reel had several frames of overexposed images. Kind of looked like your old 8mm home movies after sitting around for years, as in badly faded red. Good luck guys and gals.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-02-2003 08:47 AM                    took me all of 10 seconds to find were to splice that one. Frame lines visable you should not have to have any grayish or color diferance in the projected image. You want to cut that out.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 07-02-2003 10:51 PM                     On both prints that I built, I noticed the all black, no frame line frames, then it went grayish with black frame lines. The first image I saw was a red cursor. I assumed it was the first frame of the reel, and that is where I made the splice. When we screened it, all seemed fine. I was so into the movie, perhaps I did not notice though. Any thoughts? AJG  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 07-03-2003 01:14 AM                     There is about six inches of black after the red cursor that I think should be projected. If you hold it up to a bright light you can see framelines. The 'black' frames after the red cursor match the black in the those frames for a few inches and then you see a shade difference. I think this is where the reel ends (at least I hope it is because that's where I cut it). Worse comes to worse just count from the changeover cues. I was confident enough in my analysis of the frames that I didn't do this, perhaps I should have.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-03-2003 12:45 PM                    Dustin you were correct in your Cutting decision.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 07-04-2003 11:47 PM                        FWIW, the print I saw today was cut the way Dustin & Darryl describe, and it seemed perfect. No jarring discontinuity with image or sound. Looked "right".  |  IP: Logged

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