Sondor is a manufacturer of
Audio
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Sound
*Audio signal, an electrical representation of sound
*Audio frequency, a frequency in the audio spectrum
*Digital audio, representation of sound ...
Video
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equipment located in
Zollikon
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,
Switzerland
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until 2017.
Sondor was founded in 1952 by Willy Hungerbuehler. Sondor started as a manufacturer of
16 mm film
16 mm film is a historically popular and economical Film gauge, gauge of Photographic film, film. 16 mm refers to the width of the film (about inch); other common film gauges include 8 mm film, 8 mm and 35mm movie film, 35 mm. It ...
and
35mm film 35 mm may refer to:
Film
* 135 film, a type of still photography format commonly referred to as 35 mm film
* 35 mm movie film
35 mm film is a film gauge used in filmmaking, and the film standard. In motion pictures that record on ...
magnetic
Magnetism is the class of physical attributes that occur through a magnetic field, which allows objects to attract or repel each other. Because both electric currents and magnetic moments of elementary particles give rise to a magnetic field, m ...
film equipment. They are noted as inventing the standard for bi-phase interlocking pulse signals to
sync
Sync and synch are abbreviations of synchrony, or synchronization, the coordination of events to keep them in time. The opposite of synchrony is asynchrony.
Sync or synch may also refer to:
Computing and technology
*Sync (Unix), a command and a ...
sound
In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by the br ...
to film. Sondor added a film transport
telecine
Telecine ( or ), or TK, is the process of transferring film into video and is performed in a color suite. The term is also used to refer to the equipment used in this post-production process.
Telecine enables a motion picture, captured origi ...
to it line of film
sound
In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by the br ...
equipment. Sondor products are found in many in
post-production
Post-production, also known simply as post, is part of the process of filmmaking, video production, audio production, and photography. Post-production includes all stages of production occurring after principal photography or recording indivi ...
studios for
record and playback and in
movie theater
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for sound playback.
playback.
Sondor film transport telecines uses a spinning
prism
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telecine, like the model NOVA and ALTRA.
Some
Sound
In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by the br ...
Film followers player-recorder are the: OMA E and BASIC.
SOUNDHOUSE is a product to add sound pick up to other telecines, like the
Spirit DataCine
Spirit DataCine is a telecine and a motion picture film scanner. This device is able to transfer 16 mm film, 16mm and 35mm movie film, 35mm Color motion picture film, motion picture film to NTSC or PAL television standards or one of many High-def ...
.
The other major maker of sound followers is Magna Tech.
Direct to disk recording
A hard disk recorder (HDR) is a system that uses a high-capacity hard disk to record digital audio or digital video. Hard disk recording systems represent an alternative to reel-to-reel audio tape recording and video tape recorders, and provide ...
has replaced much of the work done on separate film sound followers.
On December 9, 2016
Digital Film Technology (dft), completed the acquisition of Sondor. DFT is the maker of the
Scanity
Spirit DataCine is a telecine and a motion picture film scanner. This device is able to transfer 16mm and 35mm motion picture film to NTSC or PAL television standards or one of many High-definition television standards. With the data transfer op ...
film scanner.
Current Sondor products:
*Versa, telecine-scanner, optical sound scan: and Magnetic sound scan
*Resonances, optical soundtrack
Resonances
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See also
* Film chain
A film chain or film island is a television – professional video camera with one or more projectors aligned into the photographic lens of the camera. With two or more projectors a system of front-surface mirrors that can pop-up are used in a ...
* Digital film
Digital cinematography is the process of capturing (recording) a motion picture using digital image sensors rather than through film stock. As digital technology has improved in recent years, this practice has become dominant. Since the 2000s, m ...
* Digital cinema
Digital cinema is the digital technology used within the film industry to distribute or project motion pictures as opposed to the historical use of reels of motion picture film, such as 35 mm film. Whereas film reels have to be shipped to mo ...
* Hard disk recorder
A hard disk recorder (HDR) is a system that uses a high-capacity hard disk to record digital audio or digital video. Hard disk recording systems represent an alternative to reel-to-reel audio tape recording and video tape recorders, and provide ...
* Factors causing HDTV Blur
* Color grading
Color grading is a post-production process common to filmmaking and video editing of altering the appearance of an image for presentation in different environments on different devices. Various attributes of an image such as contrast (vision), ...
and editing systems
* Cintel
Cintel was a British digital cinema company founded in 1927 by John Logie Baird and based in Ware, Hertfordshire. The early company was called ''Cinema Television Ltd''. Cinema Television was sold to J Arthur Rank Organization renamed Rank C ...
telecine equipment
* Color suite A color suite (also called a color bay, telecine suite, or color correction bay) is the control room for color grading video in a post-production environment.
Technology and specifications
The video source could be from: a telecine, a video tape ...
* Dolby
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (Dolby Labs or simply Dolby) is a British-American technology corporation specializing in audio noise reduction, audio encoding/compression, spatial audio, and high-dynamic-range television (HDR) imaging. Dolby li ...
* For means of putting video on film, see telerecording
Kinescope , shortened to kine , also known as telerecording in Britain, is a recording of a television program on motion picture film directly through a lens focused on the screen of a video monitor. The process was pioneered during the 1940s ...
(UK) and kinescope
Kinescope , shortened to kine , also known as telerecording in Britain, is a recording of a television program on motion picture film directly through a lens focused on the screen of a video monitor. The process was pioneered during the 1940s ...
(US).
References
Post Magazine Arri partners with Sondor, September 11, 2010Film into video: a guide to merging the technologies
by Stuart Blake Jones, Richard H. Kallenberger, George D. Cvjetnicanin
History of Telecine at the BBC, 1993.
External links
Sondor web siteDigital Film Technology web site
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