User`s manual

"Super 8 Video" is a new concept in video production, util-
izing inexpensive Super 8 film cameras as the original medium,
and Super 8 editing, studio, and transfer equipment in post-
production. Four factors combine to make Super 8 Video
the lowest cost video production method:
• Super 8 cameras, with built-in single-system or external
double-system sound recording facilities, are the least ex-
pensive means of original program production for video
release or television broadcast.
•
Super 8 editing equipment, with its capabilities for mul-
tiple sound tracks, multiple (A & B roll) picture tracks, and
straightforward physical editing (cutting) at an exact frame,
is the least expensive means of editing an original production
for video or television.
• Super 8 sound studio equipment, with up to three sound
tracks and a sync control track on an inexpensive but high-
fidelity four-channel tape recorder, is the least expensive
means of sophisticated post-production sound for video
or television.
•
Super 8 television film chains, especially the extraordinary
Kodak Videoplayer flying-spot scanner, are the least expen-
sive means of transfer to video, or direct broadcast of film.
Super 8 Video thus offers the video producer the lowest cost
production and post-production techniques available, includ-
ing color, sync sound, sound and picture editing, and mul-
tiple sound track capability. Super 8 Video offers all this
plus the extreme portability of three-pound cameras and light-
weight cassette sync sound recorders, or the new single-system
Super 8 cameras that combine sound and picture recording
in a single unit. Super 8 cameras go anywhere, operate on
penlight or rechargeable batteries, and film in extreme low
li ght situations (approximately 10 footcandles) in full color.
Transferring Super 8 to Video
Transfers of Super 8 films to video can be accomplished using
conventional film chain techniques since AC synchronous
telecine Super 8 projectors are now available. This allows the
use of image enhancers, electronic color correction, and other
sophisticated video processing. Alternatively, transfers can
be made with the extraordinary Kodak Videoplayer, an in-
expensive flying-spot scanner that converts Super 8 film to
standard NTSC color signals, 525 lines fully-interlaced com-
posite video, with separate audio derived from the magnetic
edge stripe or a fullcoat magnetic film recorder running in
double-system sync.
Video Editing of Super 8 Original
Although the double-system Super 8 sync editing equipment
available today is by far the least expensive way to edit a
Super 8 Video production, a video editor with access to
sophisticated 2" quad editing equipment may prefer to
transfer the Super 8 original film and sound directly to 2"
quad tape for video editing. This practice is recommended
by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation study group
that endorsed Super 8 as acceptable for broadcast on
Canadian television.
Super8 Sound offers the editor who prefers to edit in video
the new SONY VO-2850 U-matic 3/4 inch Videocassette
editing system. This relatively inexpensive video editing
system and a Kodak Videoplayer (for inexpensive video
transfers without tying up a color camera) are an attractive
low-cost combination that many smaller television stations
and cable companies will find fits well in today's tight
budgets.
S8S# VP1, S8SR, V01800, and KV1910
Super 8 Vid eo
Super 8 Sound, Inc.
47
95 Harvey Street, Cambridge, Mass 02140