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Author Topic: What is an "Overlay Print"? Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-18-2003 01:48 PM                     I have seen many prints with a single frame in the leader which says, "Overlay Print". What does this mean? KEN  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-18-2003 02:10 PM                     There is another tread in Film Handlers Forum, called Over/Lay print? This was John Pytlak's link to an outside description. http://www.cinetyp.com/subtitles.html  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-18-2003 04:15 PM                        Thanks for remembering that link Bill. You were faster on the draw.  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-18-2003 09:40 PM                     OK! But NONE of these prints contained overlayed subtitles. What other significance is there to this process? Could it mean that the image is changed in format? Like a scope print reformatted to 1:85 or 1:66?  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-18-2003 10:36 PM                        Images other than titles can be overlayed, although titles are the most common use.  |  IP: Logged Christopher Seo Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 530 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-19-2003 12:45 AM                     John, Is it also possible/common to use overlay with, say, regular main titles, etc.? I also have seen this designation on non-subtitled prints, and (I think) mostly or entirely with Technicolor prints.  |  IP: Logged

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