Sentence examples for an optical printer from inspiring English sources

Then I'd go into the dark room and put them on an optical printer.

This silhouette is placed with a separately photographed background (see 4E) in an optical printer.

Dissolves used to be made inside the camera or with an optical printer, but today all you need is editing software and a click of the mouse.

The plotline allows plenty of opportunities for Alton to strut his stuff: a nocturnal walk along a lonely, wind-swept beach; the halls of a cliff-top mansion, echoing with ghostly music; a memorable séance on a sunny California afternoon, during which ectoplasmic forms emerge thanks to some ingenious work with an optical printer.

Working with an optical printer, a pre-digital age machine in which filmed images are copied onto raw film stock, thereby allowing users to greatly manipulate visuals, Mr. O'Neill created a stunning oeuvre while often working in special effects, as he did for the first "Star Wars" movie.

When fitted to an optical printer, the Micro Panatar could create "flat" (nonanamorphic) prints from anamorphic negatives.

equipment was a $40,000 optical printer that could be spread out over.

Previously the most expensive equipment was a $40,000 optical printer that could be spread out over ten years, and the operator made less than $80,000 a year tops.

The final composite was produced by passing the reels of film for the effects and the live-action sequences through a two-headed optical printer and capturing the results with a camera.

The most important resource of the special effects department is the optical printer, essentially a camera and projector operating in tandem, which makes it possible to photograph a photograph.

Limited camera movement was achieved by moving the camera in the optical printer, thereby creating an optical zoom, but this method did not create a convincing illusion of three-dimensionality because the foreground and background elements, as well as the grain pattern in the film, were enlarged or reduced at the same rate.