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Topic: How to thread leader, which way is correct?
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Richard Greco
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posted 04-15-2005 12:14 AM
Just wanted to know if this is common practice. I thread from my payout platter, through the rollers bypassing the projector, and to the take up platter. Then I pull some slack on the film and thread my machine.
My tech today, threaded by pulling from the payout platter, going to the machine, and running about 10 feet of leader on the floor. He then threaded up and ran the small pile of film through the rollers, and to the take-up platter.
He says both ways are suitable. I fell, aside from the dirt on the floor going to the film, that it is much messier and only adds time to the thred considering that you have to straighten out the leader on the floor before you put it on the take-up.
Also, while you are reading this...
Is it normal practice to put the leader attatched on Reel 1 included in your build? My tech says that if we put clear leader, then the head of 1, then the movie, that if we thread and get the number 3 on the leader in the framing square, then the film will be in frame when the show starts. What do you think? I don't mind doing it, but I'll have to change my ways a bit.
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Stephen Furley
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posted 04-15-2005 01:58 AM
quote: Jason Whitlock putting the 3 in the gate?? wouldn't that leave 3 seconds of film before the picture start.
Three seconds for smpte leader, two seconds for Academy.
quote: Richard Greco He said either the 5 or the 3 would be fine
If he thinks the 3 or the 5 are ok, why not the 4, or the 9, or any other frame you care to think of.
I agree with you that the 3 is too late, the only time I would do that would be to do a changeover from a reel with a lot of film missing from the tail, but it would be very unusual for that much to be missing, I think I've only seen it about once. Since you say you are running a platter, even this wouldn't apply in this case.
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Monte L Fullmer
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From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
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posted 04-15-2005 03:08 AM
quote: I really hate when people let the leader touch the floor!
It gets dirt in the projector an ruins the presentation!
..especially at a Drive-In! Do you have platter covers at your drive-in? I would recommend it highly.
Also Richard, being at a drive-in, I would recommend knowing how to lace your machines in reverse-lacing from the bottom up. That way, leads will never touch the floor. It takes time to get the co-ordination all together since one is so used to lacing from the top down, but once you get the hang of it, it isn't that bad and one can almost be as fast lacing in reverse as it is forward.
When you lace from platter to machine back to platter, have the platter loaded, then lace the machine.
Yes, I've seen sloppy "indies" who pile the leads on the floor, then thread the projector, then finally finish up lacing up the platters. And the floor is so frikken dirty and oily, that when I used to get prints from this place, the reels went through the Kelmar pad soaked in FG BEFORE I mounted them on the platter. I managed to make a platform of such where I could mount the Kelmar between the reel spindles on a Kelmar bench and clean the prints that way.
Yep, what a -MORON and a HALF- so-called "tech" to tell you this. He should be shot and fed to the FLA crocs.
good luck-Monte
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