sound stirping solution

[amurbas]

hello,

I am relitively new to the format and i have
a question. I recently acquired a perfecto
sound striping machine which uses a solution
to paint a magnetic stripe on the film.
Does anyone have any experience with this
type of machine? Anyone know where to get
the oxide solution? I saw reference on the
forum to machines which apply a tape to the
film. How does this compare with a painted
stripe in terms of durability and sound
quality.

Thanks for any info.

[#Pedro]

Is it REALLY a painted stripe or are you mixing it up with the glue needed for striping films with tapes?
I?ve never never heard about any machines to paint soundtrack, I don?t think it can be done at home.
A perfect striped film always sounds better as a film with a direct sound track (like K40sound), because the tape is planner at the soundhead, the direct sound track has a curve at it?s surface due to the production process.

Pedro

[amurbas]

It actually paints a stripe on the film.
It came with several dried up vials of
a magnetic oxide paint. If I knew the
solvent i would attempt to redisperse them
but do not.
If I could do this do you think it would
be worth it, or am I better off sending
the film out to be stripped.

Thanks
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Courier, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by #Pedro:
Is it REALLY a painted stripe or are you mixing it up with the glue needed for striping films with tapes?
I?ve never never heard about any machines to paint soundtrack, I don?t think it can be done at home.
A perfect striped film always sounds better as a film with a direct sound track (like K40sound), because the tape is planner at the soundhead, the direct sound track has a curve at it?s surface due to the production process.

Pedro<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

[#Pedro]

It would be very exiting to make some experiments with rests of film to see and hear the result! For important material I highly recommend the stipping method, at home or in the labour. There are some machines around, a few days ago I saw one at ebay.
Another problem is projecting stripped and painted material in the same projector. The curved surface will affect the head?s surface and so reduce the sound quality of stipped film with smooth surface.
Pedro

[Mikko]

I have heard about this painted stripe. I heard that the sound quality is not so good as a tape stripe. And after striping, the oxide layer has to be...#@*demangnetisoida (I don't know the english word...) before you can record onto it. The same method is used to make sound to 16&35mm films.
Finnlab (a motion picture lab in Finland) made these "wet stripes" to super 8 for awhile, but changed to use the tape stripe. (this was a loooooong time ago, before I was born [allmost]) that's what I heard from a guy who works in there.

Use tape stripe!
M