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Posted by Gary Eickmeier on 02/09/07 04:32
"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xp7rt.net> wrote in message
news:53262hF1qqvi5U1@mid.individual.net...
> We have seen people come through here in the recent past
> with sound dropout problems. IIRC, the consensus was that
> it didn't appear to be an unusual symptom of worn or mis-
> aligned equipment.
Well, are you going to tell me what it WAS?
> Do you have feeder VCRs in your edit suites?
> You could use them to "archive" the video from whatever
> alternative storage/capture method you used.
We have the JVC VS-30 dual deck. It has been in to repair for the tape drive
failing. They did a pretty good job of repairing it. It plays most Mini DV
tapes OK, but this last wedding, it had sound dropouts all through one tape,
but it played fine from the camera (and captured fine). The format just
doesn't seem to be very robust.
>
> My opinion is that we still don't have anything generally
> available that even comes close to the cost and longevity
> of digital mag tapes.
Are you buying the premium priced tapes Richard? I know Sony has two price
ranges of Mini DV tapes. We never worried about the high priced spread too
much, because the regular ones did just fine. Maybe now is the time to
upgrade.
Might also calculate the cost of storing Firestore info on hard drives. They
are about 50 cents a gig now. So a two hour AVI file would cost about $13
worth of hard drive space. Then, when Blu Ray discs get cheaper, we could
use those. SD or HD video, take up the same amount of space.
Gary Eickmeier
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