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Originally Posted by Geoff D
Techniscope cutting and A/B rolling are not exclusive to each other. It's true that A/B rolls (or Auto Select) usually accompanied Techniscope cutting, but not the other way around, i.e. an A/B neg cut for most formats didn't have Techniscope cutting applied.
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If I understand this correctly, Techniscope cutting and A/B rolling (in some cases) are two distinct ways to hide splices. And Techniscope cutting in and of itself involves just one piece of film, with every cut having an extra frame on each end of the cut that would be removed later. So the A/B rolling that accompanies this method is only used for the fades and dissolves, correct? Never for hiding splices since the Techniscope cutting already takes care of that.
And if A/B rolling usually accompanied Techniscope cutting, what about the instances when it didn’t accompany it? Does this mean all the transitions were done optically and didn’t use first gen material?
And what’s even the point of Techniscope cutting to hide splices when you can just A/B roll every cut? Or is A/B rolling more of a b*tch to deal with than Techniscope cutting?
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Originally Posted by Geoff D
16mm is actually cut in 'checkerboard' fashion to A/B rolls, whereby every single cut is alternated across two rolls to negate the splices, whereas 4-perf 35 and 65 typically reserve the A/B (or Auto Select) aspect for the fades and dissolves only.
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Yeah, this checkerboard method is what I thought A/B rolling was all about until you pointed out that it’s also sometimes only used for fades and dissolves with first gen material. For the shows that only used A/B rolling for transitions, was there also a B roll that ran alongside the A roll that was composed only of black leader for the entire length of the A roll except for those instances when there were fades/dissolves?
Also, why does 65mm typically only reserve B-rolling for fades and dissolves? Since 65mm has the frames literally edge to edge, I would think the splices would need to be hidden.
Also wanted to say thanks for your replies thus far. Really appreciate you taking the time to answer.