Definitions
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- noun cinematography The process of
loading tworeels offilm into acamera , so that they both pass through the camera gate together, formerly used for visualeffects and as asubtractive colour process.
Etymologies
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bi- + pack
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Examples
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I believe you had to have two separate rolls of film to bipack the matte and BG - so that you could come back and lay in the characters on another run through the opt printer.
A Question on Traveling Mattes Hans Perk 2009
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The other film in the bipack was only sensitive to the sodium vapour light, so that only the matte showed up on that film.
A Question on Traveling Mattes Hans Perk 2009
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