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AATON CLEAR TIME CODE
Multi-Camera & Feature Production
RECORDING SYSTEM
Continued from
The future of multi-camera feature
Page 1239
production as proposed by Aaton con¬
following trio: Event Memory
sists in the
can supply EBU or SMPTE
code. The former allows those who have
for
@QflT
invested in Steenbeck
Trans
to®'
lines
transcoder
decoding equip¬
ment, for example, to continue along the
they have set out on; the latter
provides those shooting double system
video* with versatility and better quality
cameras
Message for programmable trans¬
fer from 1/4" to 16mm tape.
These machines have no equivalent in
the
industry today, and carry out func¬
tions which to date have remained un¬
sound.
touched
Nearly all transfer bays used in Europe
today are equipped with edge track
heads, necessary for the transcoding
operation. The addition of the edge track
facility to a transfer bay is a minor opera¬
tion, and costs in the area of 1000 F.
work of the
film
Adage 4B, the Aaton basic printingtable, reads the F & W signal on the
16mm tape, and prints the time infor¬
mation in clear arabic
figures and let¬
ters on the back. From then on, each
second of sound track contains its
own
visible and autonomous time ad¬
dress which
can
by electronics technology: the
script person, and that of the
editor
as
concerns
automatic
cataloging of multi-camera sync takes.
Event
Memory
Contained in
Option T2 of the Aaton 7
(and in the Pilotime sound
recorder circuit) the microprocessor run
Event Memory stores the time ad¬
LTR
Printer
and sound recorders, Scribe
data distributor and collector, and
camera
dresses of each time the camera starts
and
stops, as well as other parameters
concerning the take (e.g. lens dia¬
phragm, etc.) At the end of each filming
day, this information is retrieved by the
Scribe, via ASCII language.
be matched to the cor¬
responding time address exposed onto
the film edge.
Scribe
The Scribe is at the heart of the Aaton
®OTl(o] DOT)
M©o
New
Lowel
Lightflector
Printing Table reads the edge track of perforated 16mm tape and prints letters
figures on the backing. These correspond to the message and time address signals
laid down by the transcoder. (BELOW) Printing is accomplished by means of a modified
The Aaton
and
ffQOO ©^
high-speed daisy wheel and a specially developed Aaton transfer ribbon designed to dry in
a
few seconds on
Polyester base.
Lowel-Light Mfg. Inc.
421 W. 54 St. N Y. N Y. 10019
(212)245-6744.Telex: 666597UW
Cable: Lowelight
West coast: 3407 W Olive Ave.
Burbank, Ca. 91505
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213)846-7740
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