User`s manual
Super 8 Sound Recorder I
On Location
The Super8 Sound Recorder I will record in sync on loca-
tion with over 40 available Super 8 sync sound cameras. The
cameras must be equipped with a 1/F contact switch (electron-
ic flash PC socket), a pilotone generator, or be crystal-con-
trolled. The list of sync cameras currently available from
Super8 Sound (all of which are also compatible with our sync
cassette recorders) is given below.
Crystal controls are available for a number of these cameras
from Super8 Sound. Single-system cameras can also be used
as location recorders, with transfers to Super 8 magnetic film
made back in the laboratory.
Bauer C-Royal 8E, 10E
Leicina Special
Beaulieu 4008ZM2, 5008S,
Minolta Autopak-8 D 12
5008MS, 3008MS
Minolta XL400
Bolex 450, 480
Nikon R8, R10
Canon 814E, 1014 E, DS8
Nizo 136XL, 148XL, 156XL,
Chinon 806SM, 1200SM
S480, 481, 5560, 561
Cinema Pa the DS8
801, 800P
Elmo Super 110R, 612
Sankyo CME444, CME666,
Eumig 830XL, 860PMA,
CME1100, ES66XL,
880PMA
ES44XL, ES25XL
Fujica 2800, ZC1000
GAF ST/802, ST/1002
4 sync
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In the Laboratory
Transferring sync sound to Super 8 magnetic film requires a
sync signal that provides frame rate information to the Super8
Sound Recorder I. The Recorder servo-controls its speed so
that one frame of magnetic film passes the recording head for
each "frame" of the sync signal, whether a pilotone or digital
1/F signal. Transfers can be made from professional sync
recorders such as Nagra, Stellavox, Arrivox-Tandberg, and Uher
Neo-Pilot, and from the new sync cassette recorders such as
Philips 2209 AV, Uher CR134, and CR210, Super8 Sound's
XSD Recorder and others.
Transfers can also be made from the magnetic edge stripe of a
single-system film by connecting the Super8 Sound Recorder
to a projector with a 1/F contact switch. Professional sound
labs can use the Super8 Sound Recorder in AC line sync with
their other recorder/reproducers.
In the Dubbing Theater
Since the Super8 Sound Recorder will run in perfect inter-
lock with other Super8 Sound Recorders, with Super8 Sound
Sync Projectors, and even with the Super8 Sound DoubleBand
Projector, the possibilities for dubbing and mixing are exten-
sive. Filmmakers can listen to the original sync material,
on headphones, while they prepare new material, over and
over if necessary until perfect, on a second fullcoat mag
fil
m recorder.
In the Sound Studio
The Super8 Sound Recorder offers two basic approaches to
multiple track sync recording. One is to use multiple fullcoat
magnetic film recorders, all running in sync with the AC line
frequency. Any number of Super8 Sound Recorders can be
interlocked this way. No sync rollback is possible.
Another method is to transfer edited lip-sync material to one
track of a four-channel quarter-inch tape. A pilotone sync sig-
nal from the Super8 Sound Recorder is also recorded as a
control track. Now the same Super8 Sound Recorder can
transfer a second fullcoat strand, with additional sync material,
to a third track of the four-channel machine. The Super8
Sound Recorder will maintain sync against the control track.
The fourth track can be used for music, narration, etc. All
three tracks can then be mixed down to make a composite
master fullcoat track, again on the same Super8 Sound Re-
corder synced to the control track.
In the Screening Room
Sound on fullcoat magnetic film, from the first look at
synced-up rushes to the final composite master sound track,
can be run in double-system sync with any projector
equipped with a 1/F contact switch. Projector and Recorder
are started together using either a Common Start Box or the
Super8 Sound PhotoStart. The PhotoStart reacts to a flash
frame in the picture leader, and releases the Super8 Sound
Recorder for precisely repeatable starts.
Double-system interlock screenings with a sync rollback capa-
bility can be accomplished on the Super8 Sound DoubleBand
Projector. The Super8 Sound Recorder will also synchronize
with AC synchronous equipment such as the Kodak TVM100A
telecine projector. The Kodak Videoplayers can be sup-
plied with a 1/F sync pulse for double-system video transfers.
Super 8 Sound, Inc.
95 Harvey Street, Cambridge, Mass. 02140