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Posted by Steve King on 06/20/06 04:09
"Gary Eickmeier" <geickmei@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
news:5_Hlg.25189$7G2.8085@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
SNIP (A bunch of stuff from a project-based video producer)
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> The audio is recorded as digital information right in the same track as
> the video. If the video plays back fine, even at LP speed, I just want to
> know what happened to the audio. Digital audio is very robust in its error
> correction and masking. Should be some redundant bits somewhere in there,
> or some CIRC scheme to recover lost data.
I'm curious about how it happens, too, but only as a matter of curiosity.
Because I believe that your experience happens often enough to be
intolerable in my production situations I've adopted the SP only policy.
However, now that you've said a little more about your situation, I can see
why you might want to take advantage of LP even with the greater risk. I
was writing earlier from the much more paranoid (healthy, mind you) POV that
re-shoots, if they are even possible, are very expensive, something that
comes out of my pocket if it is my equipment, or employees, or I that fail
to get the shots I've contracted to do.
>
> I wonder if a Firestore would be cheaper than sending the camera in for
> all these tape drive adjustments.
Over time some other storage solution will be cheaper than chasing
performance that even the Sony marketing people are afraid to claim.
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> I shot a tape of my daughter's gymnastics event at SP, and the camera
> worked fine. But the first time I got it back from the Sony repair, it did
> have sound dropouts even at SP. I made them align it so it would play my
> friend's LP tapes, and now it performs much better. Main problem remaining
> is dropouts with 80 minute tapes at LP speed. But even the Civic Center's
> Canon XL-1 had these dropouts at LP.
Give up the LP feature except for non-critical uses, where the occasional
audio/video drop-out is regrettable but an acceptable risk.
> Let me tell you another reason sound is so important this time - the
> Civic Center's sound system was so bad at this year's graduations, we
> could not understand a WORD any of the speakers said. Echo after echo,
> until everything was a big mish-mosh. We ended up placing one camera
> (mine) right near one stage speaker, to get the max dose of direct sound
> from it, just to record some intelligible sound. The next day, we brought
> our trusty Minidisc recorder and put it on the podium a foot away from the
> speakers' mouths. Great results that way. And these little Hi MD recorders
> will go for 7 hours at HI-SP speed. With no dropouts. Gorgeous little
> recorders. A new MZ-M200 is coming out next month, which will transfer the
> sound files to computer at USB 2.0 speeds. Manual gain control on the fly.
>
> Gary Eickmeier (Lucky)
LOL. So long, Lucky.
Steve King
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