Bell and Howell (B & H) Color Timing 8-Channel Tape Punch Format

This info seems hard enough to come by in high enough quality that all the info can be read easily.

This is the hole punch format used for color grading, and is something I'm having to work with often enough to keep this around for reference.

A common format I'm having to work with is the "COMPOSITE TAPE" format, where both FCC and RGB data are included for each scene. Some things I've found which goes unsaid:


Color Grading Punch Tape Format



Another Bell and Howell tape punch decode chart.



My decoding of the below paper tape generated by a composite FCC/RGB test written from a film analyzer.



Screenshots of my C++ facit tape punch simulator I wrote to read the raw RS-232 tape reader output from a Facit N4000
and display it as if printed out on a tape punch. See that program's github page for details.




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