Sondor is a manufacturer of
Audio Video
Video is an Electronics, electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving picture, moving image, visual Media (communication), media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, whi ...
equipment located in
Zollikon
Zollikon is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland known for being one of Switzerland's most exclusive districts. Besides the main settlement of Zollikon, which lies on the shore of Lake Zürich, the munic ...
,
Switzerland 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 and 35mm movie film, 35 mm. It is ...
and
35mm film magnetic film equipment. They are noted as inventing the standard for bi-phase interlocking pulse signals to
sync sound to film. Sondor added a film transport
telecine
Telecine ( or ) 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 the post-production process.
Telecine enables a motion picture, captured originally on ...
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 ...
equipment. Sondor products are found in many in
post-production
Post-production 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 individual program segments.
Th ...
studios for
record and playback and in
movie theater
A movie theater (American English), cinema (British English), or cinema hall (Indian English), also known as a movie house, picture house, the movies, the pictures, picture theater, the silver screen, the big screen, or simply theater is a ...
for sound playback.
playback.
Sondor film transport telecines uses a spinning
prism
Prism usually refers to:
* Prism (optics), a transparent optical component with flat surfaces that refract light
* Prism (geometry), a kind of polyhedron
Prism may also refer to:
Science and mathematics
* Prism (geology), a type of sedimentary ...
telecine, like the model NOVA and ALTRA.
Some
Sound 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 16mm and 35mm motion picture film to NTSC or PAL television standards or one of many High-definition television standards. With the data trans ...
.
The other major maker of sound followers is Magna Tech.
DAT recorders and
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 ...
have 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 opt ...
film scanner.
Current Sondor products:
*Versa, telecine-scanner, optical sound scan: and Magnetic sound scan
*Resonances, optical soundtrack
[http://www.dft-film.com/downloads/datasheets/Sondor-Resonances.pdf Resonances]]
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 m ...
*
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 mid-2 ...
*
Digital cinema
Digital cinema refers to adoption of digital technology 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 s ...
*
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 ...
*
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, color, ...
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 Cint ...
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 re ...
*
Dolby
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (often shortened to Dolby Labs and known simply as Dolby) is an American company specializing in audio noise reduction, audio encoding/compression, spatial audio, and HDR imaging. Dolby licenses its technologies to ...
*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 194 ...
(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 1940 ...
(US).
References
Post Magazine Arri partners with Sondor, September 11, 2010Magna Tech 10036-3 Film Sound Follower Recorder PlayerMagna Tech 10036-3 Film Sound Follower Recorder PlayerFilm 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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