[Frameworks] neg cutting

[Anna Kipervaser]

Yes, for sure, AB rolling with cement is the traditional way. I don't work
with cement. In AB rolling and in single-strand, my tape splices don't show
up. Hence the note about being good at it and loving it. <3


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anna kipervaser
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On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 5:09 PM Jeff Kreines <jeff at kinetta.com> wrote:

> 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
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> Jeff Kreines
> Kinetta
> jeff at kinetta.com
> kinetta.com
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> On Apr 22, 2023, at 3:48 PM, Anna Kipervaser <anna.kipervaser at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 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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