Transfering Sounds Super-8

[Scott Spears]

I know how to get the picture transfered, but I have some old film with a sound stripe and was wondering what's the best way to get the sound, in sync, to viedo?

Some of these are films I made in high school and early college career. The memories just flood in when I look at these films.

Scott

[MovieStuff]

Hi, Scott!

Mikel Zwissler (Cranium here on the board) has written a slick piece of resolving software that will do the trick, if you have a projector with a 1f contact switch. You feed any kind of a continous tone through the switch and record that on the left channel of your wave file and the audio from the film on the right channel. You then run that wave file through the software and type in the exact frame rate. If your film was transfer on the Rank or WorkPrinter and was 18fps then you would type in 17.982fps (accounting for the -.1% speed difference of video). The software will generate a new wave file that is spaced out for correct playback on your NLE timeline, but minus the pulses. Obviously, this will work for 24fps footage as well. Just type in 23.976fps and let the software do the job of spacing out the pulses and sound track to match the running speed of the film transfer.

If you don't have a contact switch on your projector and can wait a week or two, I am finishing up a prototype outboard passive pulse generator that will work with both projectors and sound editors. It will have an LED and sensor to read the sprocket holes. The film will pass in between without touching anything. The unit will affix to the editor or projector along the film path with some foam tape. The output will be a recordable signal of pulses that correspond to the frame rate of the film passing through it.

Roger

[Konton]

Hey Scott,

I'd say use a Goko TC-20. It has a playback head on it so it can transfer the audio and the film image at the same time. I'd say you could use mine, but I'm moving. Sorry man. I hope to run into Mikel though while I'm back in San Franciso. Has anyone tried out his digital resolving software system?