[Frameworks] neg cutting

[Jeff Kreines]

Anna:

You’re cutting negative with tape splices?  Single-strand (A-roll only)? Really??  Given the lower gamma of negative stocks a tape splice is more likely to show than on reversal stock.

I’ve always cut my own A&B rolls.  Always cement splices.  I learned from the great Tom Palazzolo that the trick was to tape (with paper tape or masking tape) everything together with an extra frame of overlap.  Then take each roll and crank through and splice only the cuts that don’t require looping the film around the splicer.  And of course NEVER scrape the black leader, only picture!  Then wind in the other direction and do the other half of the splices, again scraping only picture and keeping the film straight.  Then do the other rolls.

This keeps you from messing up in a lot of ways.

That said, these days I don’t cut A&B rolls any more because I work from scans.  One reason for this is that all of our films are color or B&W reversal and there are not print stocks for making prints directly from reversal stocks — thank you Kodak…

Jeff


Jeff Kreines
Kinetta
jeff at kinetta.com
kinetta.com


> On Apr 22, 2023, at 3:48 PM, Anna Kipervaser <anna.kipervaser at gmail.com> wrote:
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> So I'm cutting negs to conform to workprints right now, for a couple films I'm working on and am being reminded, once again, how much I love it and how good I am at making clean tape splices. So... I thought I'd write a note here to say that I dunno who's doing their own neg cutting these days and loving it, or where folks are sending negs to get cut if not loving it, but am curious about it, and am also thinking about whether I would love doing it full time. 
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