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Scott Norwood
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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 01-01-2003 08:58 AM
We can debate all we want about reference frames, but the bottom line is this: any film editor who places reel changes in the middle of a scene or line of dialogue (or, worse, a piece of music) is just asking for that scene to be butchered by exhibitors. This can happen in any number of ways: theatres with exciter-lamp changeover systems, platter or large-reel houses which leave multiple reference frames attached to the leaders, "souvenir collectors," badly done changeovers, cheap splicing tape that can't be peeled and thus requires frames to be cut off, etc.
Personally, I do leave one reference frame attached to both the head and tail leader of each reel (except the head of R1, of course) when making up new prints for platter shows. I can understand other viewpoints, but my reasoning is this: the reference frame isn't for the benefit of the first person to break down the print--it is for the benefit of the next theatre which runs that print, so that they can be sure that the leaders are attached to the proper reels. When running older prints, I have always appreciated having a means to confirm that I am running the film in the proper order. Also, the loss of two frames at every reel change is quite negligible; in a changeover booth, I know that I am personally only accurate to within a couple of frames, anyway.
I know that Brad disagrees, and I agree that it would be preferable to show every frame for the first run of a print, but I am glad that most people from whom I have received used prints with cut leaders have followed the reference-frame convention.
Much more important to me, though, is that the leaders be re-attached with good-quality clear splicing tape (not the white junk, not masking tape, not Scotch tape, not duct tape). Single-sided splices are fine and should run through most projectors, but I really hate spending time peeling off junk splicing tape and re-attaching leaders for once-only shows. Also, either USE REEL BANDS or TAPE DOWN LEADERS before shipping a print out!
Anyway, all these topics have been discussed (there's a thread on "breakdown etiquette" or something similar that I'm too lazy to look up right now).
And what's up with putting automation cues _over_ splicing tape? I can't think of any reason do this except if the cues are difficult to remove (foil peels off easily; the barcode stickers don't), but I can think of many reasons not to do this (in particular, automation systems which require multiple cues in a row to perform certain functions). I admit that I don't remove the cues when I ship out prints from automated booths, but there are never more than two cues (one at the start of the credits and one at the end of the show), neither of which is visible on screen and both of which are easily found and removed if the print goes to another automated booth.
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