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