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Author Topic: You know your aperture is too big when... John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 10-18-2008 03:42 PM                     ...projecting La Vie En Rose, you see subtitle coding numbers hanging off the right edge of the image: (reel 4) Cyan markings are the 0.825" scope aperture. One of our projectors had about half of the digit showing. I must say, I'd never seen that kind of out of frame marking for subtitles before. Anyone know the purpose and is it common? --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 10-18-2008 06:10 PM                     I have seen these in the past on prints using a negative overlay to make the subtitle with sequence numbers on the edge as shown.  |  IP: Logged Mike Carro Film Handler Posts: 67 From: Tempe, Az USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 10-20-2008 08:07 AM                        John, what are you using to scan the frames? Thanks  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 10-20-2008 10:45 AM                     That was scanned on a Canon 9950 flatbed scanner that's designed to scan positive and negative film (as well as paper). I just paper tape the film to the glass and scan it. (In this case, I even scanned it emulsion-up by accident and flipped it in software, so the focus is imperfect, but not noticably so. --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 10-20-2008 09:04 PM                     Cool, I need to get that scanner... My room at UCI has an oversize plate cut on my #2 machine for scope....I goofed when cutting it because the picture was vignetting on the right of the huge projection window. At over $90 per plate I'm not gonna cut another one...that's what the foil duct seal tape is for.  |  IP: Logged Gunnar Asgeirsson Film Handler Posts: 64 From: Iceland Registered: Jul 2006 posted 10-25-2008 07:45 PM                        We was running this movie last year here in iceland... We was running textless print and the icelandic subtitle was from Dolby Screentalk.. So this was not problem here  |  IP: Logged Andres Briano Expert Film Handler Posts: 162 From: Buenos Aires, Argentina Registered: Jan 2008 posted 10-29-2008 06:49 PM                        quote: Tony Bandiera Jr. My room at UCI... UCI? As in United Cinemas International?  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 10-29-2008 07:21 PM                     University of California, (at) Irvine  |  IP: Logged Andres Briano Expert Film Handler Posts: 162 From: Buenos Aires, Argentina Registered: Jan 2008 posted 10-30-2008 01:39 PM                        Aaaaahhhhhh....  |  IP: Logged

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