[Frameworks] using a hot splicer

[Caryn Cline]

Thank you Scott, George and Dave for your helpful suggestions.  It turns
out that I can submit my negatives tape-spliced.  I will order some fresh
cement, too and practice my hot-splicing technique.

Thank you, Frameworks.  I'd be adrift without you.

CC
Caryn Cline
Experimental Filmmaker & Teacher
vimeo.com/carynyc


film still from "Hand-made" (2016)




On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Dave Tetzlaff <djtet53 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Excellent advice from Scott. The heat is just a drying time aid. Less
> expensive glue splicers don’t have heaters. Glue splicing is all about
> scraping technique, good cement, and technique in applying the cement
> properly. It takes some practice to do it right, so newbies should
> experiment on outs/trims/slug before cutting precious footage.
>
> But… I’m not sure glue splicing is what you’d want for digitizing from
> negative. Historically, glue splices have been used for preparing A/B rolls
> so the lab can create prints with invisible edit points. Thus, the splices
> all involve a scraped lap of the negative being glued to a full from of
> black. If you glue splice an ‘A’ roll, the splices will be quite visible.
> If you’re going to digitize camera original, it makes no sense to create
> your edits in the film stock. I would think you’d want to cut the sections
> you want to digitize several frames long on each end, and tape splice them
> together. The tape splices would show in the digitized footage, of course,
> but then you just edit them out to the proper in/out points in an NLE.
>
> You could do the same with glue splices, of course, but the only reason I
> can think of to do that is if they’d run through the gate of the scanner
> more reliably. AFAIK, the flatness of a properly aligned tape splice would
> be better than the bump of the lap in the glue splice, but I could be wrong
> on that.
>
> Anybody have more knowledge on this?
>
>
> Scott Dorsey wrote:
> > It won't get very hot, it only gets slightly warm.  And you can make a
> perfectly good splice with it even if it's not warm, it just takes a lot
> > longer to set.
>
>
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