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Assessing the Scans Part 4 — Soundtrack

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A Film Restoration Diary. Assessing the Scans Part 4 Soundtrack. In assessing these kine scans we come finally and briefly to the sound tracks. Each kine has an optical soundtrack, some are variable area, others variable density. Optical soundtracks on 16mm film are not exactly “high fidelity” audio. The two most significant limitations on quality are:. Here is a sample of audio from the scan of The Magic Mirror (1961). Finding the Smallest Video Raster Crop Size for Downsampling Calculations.

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Re-Scanning The Golden Princess (1962)

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A Film Restoration Diary. Re-Scanning The Golden Princess (1962). In the previous four posts, we assessed four aspects of the Tarax Show Christmas Pantomime kine scans:. Anatomy of a Kine Frame. The most significant problems were jitter and dust and scratches. We will look at ways to reduce the effect of these in later blog posts. However, the scan of The Golden Princess done on the Spirit Datacine suffers rather badly from some of the defects to which line scanners like the Spirit are susceptible. Findi...

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Building a Better Structured Editor

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Building a Better Structured Editor. Why Don’t All RTF Parsers Recognise Styles? The RTF document format grew in parallel with Microsoft Word. Parsing and interpreting formatting controls when styles are mixed with direct formatting can be a challenge. Perhaps that’s why many RTF parsers ignore styles and their value as a structural device. The Difference Between Document Structure and its Representation. A Closer Look at Document Structuring. Fredrik from Utrecht in the Netherlands wrote to me in 2010 a...

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Assessing the Scans Part 3 — Video Levels

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A Film Restoration Diary. Assessing the Scans Part 3 Video Levels. This post discusses video levels in the four kine scans. For the purposes of this discussion, we will talk about luminance values only since the Tarax Show scans are black and white and the colour information has been removed from the scans. First, let’s look at a screenshot of a video scope and the corresponding frame, as displayed in Final Cut Pro. When adjusting the tonal range of any still image or video, two crucial concepts are blac...

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A Closer Look at Document Structuring

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Building a Better Structured Editor. A Closer Look at Document Structuring. Before going on to examine how a different kind of text preparation tool could make the structuring task faster and easier, lets take a closer look at this task of. Consider the very common case where a designer is handed a word processor document to prepare for publication. Let’s assume that the “typographical cleanup” has been done and that structuring the document is the next task. Probably a mix of the following:. Some author...

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A Conversation with Fredrik, a Document Engineer from the Netherlands

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Building a Better Structured Editor. A Conversation with Fredrik, a Document Engineer from the Netherlands. Fredrik from Utrecht in the Netherlands wrote to me in 2010 about publishing workflows. His experiences are similar to mine, so I quote from his email and add a commentary. I had explained to Fredrik about my background in publishing and talked about the typical problems experienced with publishing workflows. Fredrik’s comments are shown indented below:. I agree with you that it is unrealistic to c...

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Paul Howson’s Website. Hi, I’m Paul Howson the author of this website. I live in Warwick, a country town in the Darling Downs of Queensland, Australia. Warwick is famous as the home of the Warwick Rodeo, claimed to be the longest running annual rodeo in Australia. In the late 1970s I joined a small publishing organisation which had their own electronic typesetting equipment. This kindled an interest in design, which has been my main area of work for over 30 years. The interest in programming was kindled ...

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Preparing Text for Publication is Different from Authoring — and Needs Special Tools

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Building a Better Structured Editor. Preparing Text for Publication is Different from Authoring and Needs Special Tools. In this post I want to suggest that a publication designer needs a different kind of text preparation tool than the typical word processor used by authors. Old and New Ways. Nowadays, the publication designer receives an already prepared text file to convert into professionally typeset text. Let us examine this typesetting process more closely. Steps in Text Preparation. In this proces...

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Film Restoration Diary

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A Film Restoration Diary. Finding the Smallest Video Raster Crop Size for Downsampling Calculations. In the earlier post[ 1. About downsampling the kine scans from 2K to PAL SD , we established the need to know the minimum dimensions of the video raster, which varies slightly in width and height over the duration of a reel. The final cropping boundary for a PAL SD video needs to fall within the minimum video raster size so that we get nice clean edges on the video frames. Read entire post. As I write thi...