sepmag
English
editEtymology
editClipping of separate magnetic (“from the magnetic tape used for recording”).
Adjective
editsepmag (not comparable)
- (television, dated) Having a separately magnetically recorded soundtrack running concurrently with the film footage.
- Synonym: double-headed
- Coordinate terms: commag, comopt, sepopt
- 1968, D. J. Corbett, Motion Picture and Television Film, page 64:
- At the appropriate distances (28, 26 and 20 frames) ahead of the JOIN PICTURE HERE line there are rows of squares, circles and triangles which indicate the correct splicing points for 16-mm sepmag, 16-mm sepopt and […]
- 1970, BBC Engineering, numbers 81-88, page 13:
- Sound for these two telecines is reproduced from conventional sepmag tape machines.