SMPTE Journal ( Volume: 101, Issue: 1, January 1992)
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Applications of Laser Technology to Photographic Optical Sound Recording
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- Publisher
- SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
- Doc Type
- Journal Article
- Content Type
- Original Research
- Abbreviated Title
- SMPTE J
- Volume
- 101, No. 1, pp. 14–18
- Abstract
- Photographic optical sound recording has been used for composite sound tracks on cinema prints since the introduction of sound on motion-picture film. It has evolved through variable-area to variable-density modulation, using various forms of modulators, and back to variable-area, in worldwide use today. The majority of modulators currently in use are light valves and galvanometers, both types capable of stereophonic variable-area recording. Various other modulator schemes have been tried, but few were ever commercially put into service. Today a successful new optical recorder has been developed, using a laser beam that is capable of exposing a sharper image with a more even field and an extended frequency response. This article describes this new technology, which can be used for recording standard stereo variable-area sound tracks, making optical test films, and future recording of digital audio sound negatives.
- Publication Date
- 1992-01-01
- DOI
10.5594/J02357- ISSN
- Print:
0036-1682 - Link
- https://doi.org/10.5594/J02357
- Author(s)
- Michael StrongNacwestrex, Inc., Burbank, CA 91506.Jack LeahyNacwestrex, Inc., Burbank, CA 91506.
- Copyright
- © 1992 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.
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