Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 (edited) They were walking about transferring sound from a nitrate print. What kind of machine is this? Found on LinkedIn for Simon Daniel Sound. Edited July 23, 2021 by Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Sponsor Robert Houllahan Posted August 4, 2021 Site Sponsor Share Posted August 4, 2021 Looks like a optical sound reproducer for reading soundtracks from prints. Not sure the make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted August 5, 2021 Premium Member Share Posted August 5, 2021 8 hours ago, Robert Houllahan said: Looks like a optical sound reproducer for reading soundtracks from prints. Not sure the make. Can't help but feel that if it needs that bit of blackwrap (or whatever it is) taped to it, the optical head design is a little suspect. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Posted August 8, 2021 Author Share Posted August 8, 2021 How much are machines that can read optical sound? (sprocketless transport) I can capture sound with AEO Light, but I'd rather have a machine for it if I can't get a sound scanner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry Paolantonio Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 15 hours ago, Daniel D. Teoli Jr. said: How much are machines that can read optical sound? (sprocketless transport) I can capture sound with AEO Light, but I'd rather have a machine for it if I can't get a sound scanner. There are optical readers for the old 35mm/16mm fullcoat mag dubbers. I'd be happy to sell you an MTE dual-head dubber if you're interested, crazy cheap but you'd have to arrange for shipping out of Boston (freight, and it's bulky). But, needs a lot of work because we disassembled it, when we were planning to make it into a film scanner. You'd need to source an optical reader for it though, as we only have mag heads for that unit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Tyler Purcell Posted August 8, 2021 Premium Member Share Posted August 8, 2021 (edited) Actually, this could be picture, I've seen one very similar before. It's made on an old magnasync chassis because they're really robust. It uses a prism and it's designed for dailies only. The concept was a low-cost way to get SD dailies onto your Betacam tape during the day of avid editing. For sure a "poor" option for modern scanning, but I guess people didn't have much of an option in the late 80's when those things were made. The guys over at Christys had one and I mucked around with it, not something worth discussing, but cool. Edited August 8, 2021 by Tyler Purcell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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