Sound striped 16mm film

[camera8mm]

Hello
I aquired a kodak pageant 16mm projector which has the option of optical and magnetic playback and magnetic recording on 16mm film. (not fullcoat mag stock.)
was wondering if anyone bothers with 16mm sound stripe film these days.

[jpolzfuss]

16mm sound-striping is at least available at fipra:
http://www.fipra.de/filmbearbeitung/mag ... index.html

[Will2]

What about making a print with an optical track for 16mm?

Actually, that would be fun to output some HD edits to 16mm with audio.

[woods01]

Yeah, you can still get optical sound tracks done but its pretty limited. I think Alphacine in Seattle can do it (either that or there was someone in Seattle doing them). Skylight studios in Toronto does them too.

Its mono only and you just send them a digital file with your mono mix, people complain about the limited range of it but its got a certain sound that is unique.

[camera8mm]

I've been trying to find some 16mm mag striped film to test the projector but it seems there isnt a lot or some people say sound movies and dont know weather it is optical (more likely) or mag stripe.

[Will2]

Aren't 90% of 16mm sound projectors optical? I don't think I've ever seen a magnetic 16mm sound film. Wasn't that just for news gathering cameras?

[David M. Leugers]

The only film I have seen with mag sound is a combination sound print that has the optical track on half of the sound track space and mag stripe on the other half. This was for multi (two) language prints. I have one of "The Big Sleep" remake with Robert Mitchum. The mag track is Japanese. Kodak made pre-striped print film. It was a real money saver and gave better quality sound if you wanted a print and had your own recording mag sound projector. I was really bummed about it when they stopped making all 16mm mag-striped film.