[Frameworks] optical soundtrack generator?

[graemehogg at irational.org]

Looks like a nice project, would love to see some outcomes Scott if you up 
for sharing tings like this.....

I was planning on using  mmcwilliams processing scripts to print out 
discrete frames onto paper (24 per second) from test audio sources that 
would probably be wavs. I was then going to photograph each strip into the 
soundtrack area using gates wide enough to cover this, for 16 a super 16 
gate, for 35mm a full gate. (using punched paper...)

Theres a really good section in Donald McWilliams Animated musician film 
about Norman McLarens projects where you see him doing this with waveform 
cards, and making multiple exposures for each frame to produce 'chords'.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/norman_mclaren_animated_musician/

As someone mentioned before this would leave you with frame line 'gaps' 
which would produce some kind of noise, but predictable enough to possibly 
filer it out with hardware. Im not sure how this problem manifests in 
McLarens films if at all...

take care.


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On Sun, 13 Sep 2020, sstark at hi-beam.net wrote:

> Hi Francisco, no my original post was to take an audio source (WAV or MP3,
> or direct audio from a mic or line in) and convert it to an optical track.
> This could either be exposed directly onto 35mm film (in the optical track
> area) using a device that labs use,  or generate a digital image that I
> could print onto the film using a 35mm film recorder that I have.
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: FrameWorks <frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com> On Behalf Of
> Francisco Torres
> Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2020 5:48 AM
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] optical soundtrack generator?
>
> so the original poster idea is to convert the optical sound  track into an
> image that could be printed on the frame area to be projected as a whole
> image as we listen to the sound? is that it?
>
> 2020-09-11 8:01 GMT-04:00, graemehogg at irational.org
> <graemehogg at irational.org>:
>>
>> Agfa will manufacture this stock if they get a big enough order, like
>> every single (exp) film maker in the world ordering 2000ft? Why not,
>> now is the age to achieve such a feat..
>>
>>
>>
>>> For a long time I ran Agfa ST-8 through the sound cameras, but that
>>> has become difficult to find.  That's also a polyester base.
>>>
>>> I would not worry too much about running the new polyester film
>>> stocks in a well-maintained Bolex.
>>> --scott
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