For pilot tones in telecommunications, see Pilot signal.
Pilottone (or Pilotone) and the related neo-pilotone are special synchronization signals recorded by analog audio recorders designed for use in motion picture production, to keep sound and film recorded on separate media (otherwise known as double system recording) synchronised. Before the adoption of timecode by the motion picture industry, pilotone sync was used in almost all 1/4-inch magnetic double system motion picture sound recording from the late 50s until the late 1980s. Previous to the introduction of 1/4-inch audio tape recordings were made on 35mm optical cameras and then later, with the introduction of magnetic recording, 16mm or 35mm magnetic stock. The first 1/4-inch recorder capable of recording a synch track to regulate the playback speed of the recording was made by Rangertone and was a variation on the soon to come pilotone system.
Pilottone (or Pilotone) and the related neo-pilotone are special synchronization signals recorded by analog audio recorders designed for use in motion...
with a movie camera. For such purposes, special recorders that record pilottone must be used. Tachometer signals can be used to synchronize several tape...
Rouch used synchronized sound, using a 16 mm camera connected through pilottone with a prototype of Nagra III, a transistorized tape recorder with electronic...
to the carrier frequency multiplex system. Syncword Synchronous Idle Pilottone This article incorporates public domain material from Federal Standard...
essentially clock motors. Later the 50 Hz or 60 Hz sine wave, called a Pilottone, was recorded on a second parallel track of an audio recorder. In double-system...
popular evolution of ideas about reality and the media. Before the use of pilottone sync-sound (invented in 1954) and the 1961 Nagra III, sound recording...
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two machines, they were synchronised. Townsend thereby effectively used pilottone, a technique that was common in 16mm news gathering whereby a 50/60 Hz...
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