User`s manual
Super8 Sound Recorders
On Location
The Super8 Sound Recorder
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will record in sync on location
with over 40 available Super 8 sync sound cameras. The cam-
eras must be equipped with a 1/F contact switch (electronic
flash PC socket), or tone burst, a pilotone generator, or be
crystal-controlled. A quick-acting electromagnetic solenoid
provides start/stop operation from cameras equipped for tape
recorder remote control (asterisks in list of sync cameras
below).
Crystal controls are available for a number of cameras from
Super8 Sound. Single-system cameras can also be used as lo-
cation recorders, with transfers to Super 8 magnetic film
made in the laboratory.
Bauer C-Royal 8E", 10E*
GAF ST/802, ST/1002
Beaulieu 4008ZM2, 5008S Leicina Special
Bolex 450, 480"
Minolta Autopak-8 D12
Canon 814E, 1014E, DS8*
Minolta XL400
Chinon 806SM, 1200SM
Nikon R8, R10*
Cinema Pa the DS8
Nizo 136XL, 148XL, 156XL,
Elmo Super 110R, 612
S480*, 481*, S560*,
Eumig 830XL, 860PMA, 880PMA
561", 801*, 800P"
Fujica Z800, ZC1000
Sankyo CME444, CME666,CME1100
sync
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 H . 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 new sync cassette recorders
such as Phillips 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 Re-
corder 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.
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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 film
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
signal 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 ma-
terial, 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, narra-
tion, etc. All three tracks can then be mixed down to make
a composite master fullcoat track, again on the same Super8
Sound Recorder 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 syn-
chronized using the supplied 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 supplied with a 1/F sync pulse for double-system video
transfers.
Super 8 Sound
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Inc.
95 Harvey Street, Cambridge, Mass. 02140
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