Hi Scott (et al), Not for 35mm, necessarily, but there is a very active 16mm Auricon group on facebook that might have some tips or starting points. Not necessarily for Scott, as I'm guessing you already know, but these were TV news cameras that recorded optical sound directly on the film - no need for syncing later on. These have been converted by DIY labs to become sound printers, as well.
For 35mm you may be able to find an old Westrex 35mm printer (mono)...and perhaps just using it as a recording device for the sound output from a computer would be more accurate than trying to print the sound line-by-line? Regardless, please share with us when you have a solution! -Jason Halprin Montréal Jason Halprin [email protected] jasonhalprin.com <[email protected]> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 10:17 AM Scott Dorsey <[email protected]> wrote: > Ahh, I get it, you want a digital image of what the soundtrack would like > and > you want to plot it out as part of your filmout. > > This turns out not to be an easy thing to do because of the frame lines... > it is very very hard to get the bottom of one frame to line up perfectly > with > the top of the next one so there is not some discontinuity 24 times a > second. > The Arrilaser recorder can do it, but they take a file that consists of > frames and turn it into a datastream that consists of individual lines, and > plot a line at a time instead of a frame at a time. > > But if you want to try it just to see what happens, it should not be all > that hard to write a little script to create two white lines whose width > varies with modulation. Pull values one at a time out of a .wav file, > use them to set the width of the line directly. > --scott > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >
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