By the end of the program, the Mark VIII, an optical printer, could capture about 16, 000 frames every six hours.
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The optical printer would continue to be used for films until the late 1980s, when they were superseded by computer compositing.
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When fitted to an optical printer, the Micro Panatar could create " flat " ( nonanamorphic ) prints from anamorphic negatives.
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For the film " The Empire Strikes Back ", Richard Edlund created a'quad optical printer'that accelerated the process considerably and saved money.
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Hirsh's many talents led him to build his own optical printer, and he used then-new wire recording equipment to document live jazz.
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With pre-digital matting, the several extra passes through the optical printer would degrade the film quality and increase the probability of edge artifacts.
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Up to 2000, once the film was photographed in Super 35, an optical printer was used to anamorphose ( squeeze ) the image.
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Essentially, an optical printer is a projector aiming into a camera lens, and it was developed to make copies of films for distribution.
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One problem with the optical printer was that it sometimes created excessive graininess, such as the optical zoom out of the snow globe.
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That background is then erased as the images are layered on one another and then filmed again with the still widely used optical printer.
