Subtitles on Super 8

[mattias]

even if you would tape them on, they would be black and very hard to read. i don't know how it's usually done, but it is supposedly possible to subtitle without an extra optical step. i guess it involves removing the emulsion somehow. i think i've heard they use a laser...

/matt

[mattias]

yes, here it is. i bet they don't do super 8 though...
http://www.cinetyp.com/subtitles.html

/matt

[mattias]

try this. lots of stuff:
[ame="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=laser+subtitle+print+emulsion&btnG= Google+Search"]http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=laser+subtitle+print+emulsion&btnG= Google+Search[/ame]

/matt

[bailey800]

I would imagine that if i printed it in white letters and taped them they would show up but who knows how clearly... Does anybody out there know a home-made step to this process???

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[mattias]

sure they would show up no matter what color you printed them. even bright pink or green letters would be black though, unless you printed them with transparent ink, in which case they would hardly be visible at all. and there is by definition no such thing as white transparent ink, so that wouldn't work anyway... ;-)

/matt

[Matt Pacini]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Courier, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bailey800:
I would imagine that if i printed it in white letters and taped them they would show up but who knows how clearly... Does anybody out there know a home-made step to this process???

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That would take a million years, pasting onto each frame, at 24 frames per second.
The only way I can think of, if you're dealing with a print you already have, would
involve making a second print.
Get a Workprinter (see other posts on this topic), and a piece of glass with your titles mounted on it, put it right at the condenser lens, and have a Super 8 camera shoot from this.
I'm not sure if you'd have problems keeping both the titles and the image in the condenser lens in focus (Roger?), and also, you would need the single frame version that I am getting.
There's jsut no easy and/or cheap way to add titles onto actual film!

Matt Pacini

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[bailey800]

Hello everyone! i'm new to this Super 8 business but, as i posted before, i live in europe and will want to probably do some subtitles on dialogue. is this feesible?? I read the topic on titles, but subtitles within the picture would probably be more tedious. I have an ELMO 912 with a splicer and someone told me that i could print the subtitles in fine font onto clear adhesive tape and paste them in that way one frame at a time but that would take AGES. anyone got any secrets???