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Posted by Steve King on 04/24/06 18:51
"Dan Wenz" <djwenz@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:4b4ic4Fvrm6sU1@individual.net...
> Thanks to responders! My camera's a Sony, so to Sony tape I'll stick.
> Might as well get the "better" tape. The tape I'd been using is/was DVM60,
> no dropouts as far as I recall (I don't reuse).
In another thread I recently offered that I had my first occurance of drop
out with Sony DVM60. On various cameras I've run through several hundred
tapes over the past several years. My video editor (with his own shop) has
had two or three occurances of drop outs among all his clients since he
switched from a BetaSP/Avid facility to DVCAM and MiniDV on FCP. Another
producer friend has had one occurance in four or five years, but it involved
a scene with kids in a documentary for which there was no alternate scene.
Would the incidence of drop out be less on "Excellence" tape. Hard to know.
My friend switched to Excellence after his experience, and I think that I
shall also switch for acquisition. No matter what, these few drop outs in
so many rolls of tape is remarkable reliability.
With analogue tape including BetaSP I was in the habit of checking all
keeper shots to be sure there were no drop outs. I have gotten out of the
habit, become complacent. I plan to do shot reviews more often, now.
Steve King
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