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A type of meter for taking a Reflective Light Reading with a short telescopic sight that enables you to take a very specific reflective reading of a

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A piece of gear consisting of three arms on a central hub attached to the bottom of a tripod to keep the legs from collapsing outwards.

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A round springloaded clamp that goes on the end of a rewind to allow several reels to turn together.

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The teeth on a roller designed to engage with the perforations in film. Sometimes sprocket holes are referred to as sprockets too.

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The same as Perf.

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Spun glass diffusion material. see Diffusion.

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A small amplified speaker used on an editing bench and receiving sound from the Sound Reader.

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A popular brand of flatbed. The word is sometimes used interchangeably with flatbed.

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an endearing term, used by electricians, for an extension cord. Not a very commonly used term on the whole.

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A grease pencil mark on the workprint indicating either a fade or a dissolve, called so because when projected it resembles a streamer trailing acros

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35mm mag stock that contains a stripe of magnetic tape rather than the complete coating found on Fullcoat. Stripe mag will also have a balance stripe

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A format using single perf 16mm film on which a wider image is exposed than is the case with regular 16mm, using the area that would normally have th

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Just a fancy way for Zeiss to describe a fast prime lens, typically with a Tstop of 1.3.

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Superimposition

The same as Double Exposure, but often used expressly to describe a double exposure done through optical printing, as in superimposed titles, etc.

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The degree to which sound and picture are lined up, insync being lined up exactly, and outofsync not so exactly. It can be applied to any specific so

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1.: The point at which the clapsticks come together at the beginning of a shot, and the accompanying sound on the sound track. 2.: An “X” mark on a s

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Sync sound is sound recorded while shooting picture. Usually it involves footage of people speaking, and is thus sometimes called lip sync. It must b

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A very helpful tool of the editing room, a synchronzier is a device with a center axle and several sprocketed wheels attached to it. The wheels are c

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The actual lining up of sound and picture before editing a sync sound film. This also involves cutting the excess sound between takes, and adding fil

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Stop Similar to an FStop, some lenses, particularly zoom lenses, will have fstops on one side of the aperture ring and tstops on the other. To differ

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A gauge on a camera measuring the film speed when the camera is running.

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The end of a shot or a roll is called the tail.

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Sometimes it is necessary to mark a shot at the end rather than at the beginning. When this is done it is called a tail slate. It is customary to cal

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Multiple versions of the same shot are called takes.

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An empty reel, used on a projector to gather up the film after it has passed through the movement.

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An empty spool in a camera used to gather up the film after it has passed through the movement.

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A method of joining two pieces of film so they can be projected as one continuous piece. Tape splices are used in the editing stage. To cut the negat

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A machine for transferring film to video.

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Used as an equivalent to Long Lens, but for those who wish to be overly exact, a telephoto lens is a long lens that is physically shorter than its fo

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This is the sequence of directions that begin a take, typically: “Roll Sound!” “Roll Camera!” “Mark it!” “And... Action!”

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The Groundglass

A flat surface of etched glass in the viewfinding system of a camera that is the same distance from the lens as the film plane.

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The parts of a camera or projector that move the film intermittently: the pulldown claw, the rollers before and after the loops, and the gears connec

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A board with two hinged sticks attached. The slate is used to record a scene number and sync point (via the clapstick) at the beginning of a shot.

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1.: The tripod or the tripod legs. 2.: The clapper on the slate.

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The Taking Lens

On a turret, the lens that is actually in front of the gate, producing an image on the film.

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In Kit A device for bypassing the fuse box and electrical wiring of a location by tapping power directly from the mains.

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A handy attachment sometimes found on an editing bench on the right rewind, used to wind film onto a core and giving it a very smooth edge. It can be

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A tight wind is useless without it. This is the hub that holds a core on the spindle of a rewind.

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A vertical camera move on an axis, up or down. Not to be used interchangeably with pan. It is not really correct to say “pan up” or “pan down,” when

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Time lapse is when single frame shooting is used to dramatically speed up the action over the course of a long period of time. Typically it is a proc

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Unlike a One Light Print, this is a print where the timer has gone through and timed every shot.

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The person at the lab who goes through your film, shot by shot and selects the printing lights.

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The lab’s process of selecting printing lights to for the proper redition of exposure and color when making a print. The term is a little consuing, a

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Timing Lights or Printing Lights

These are the lamps of the contact printer at the lab. Their brightness can be controlled, which is measured in a scale of 1 to 50, 1 being the darke

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A list of the timing lights and corresponding footages the lab used in making your print. The timing report can be very helpful for analyzing the foo

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To tell if a piece of film is A

Wind or BWind hold it up with the emulsion facing you. If it is AWind the image will read correctly, if it is BWind it will be mirror image. AWind and

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1.: A 1,000 Hz sine wave used at the beginning of a tape to provide consistent volume when transferring sound. 2.: Room Tone.

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A tracking shot is one where the camera is placed on a dolly and is moved while filmming. Also known as a dolly shot.

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Trim Bin or Editing Bin or Bin

A trim bin is a bin on wheels lined with a fabric bag and topped off with a frame with a row pins on which to hang film while editing. Oddly enough,

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Trims are outtakes of a few frames, usually a foot or less. To keep them from getting lost they are usually stored separately from longer outtakes, e

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