Posted by Larry J. on 09/17/05 05:52

Waiving the right to remain silent, chuck <cw@spambites.net> said:

> In article <MLKWe.1615$Jm.585@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net>,
> "DanR" <dhr22@sorrynospm.com> wrote:
>
>> Audio on an SP deck with FM tracks is pretty good.
>> Unfortunately it is hardly ever used in the editing process
>> because most suites ignore tracks 3 and 4.
>
> Not all BSP decks have the ability to record or play back the
> Ch3/4 AFM tracks. Believe on the BVW series it was standard, you
> could get mod kits for the PVW's. It was great for in-house use,
> but no guarantee if outside facilities could use the #3 and #4
> tracks.

I used to record plenty of stuff on tracks 3 & 4, mostly for network
clients. They would give us a laundry list of exactly what was to go
on which tracks of which machines.

Sometimes we'd be rolling as many as eight Betacam machines. That's
32 tracks of audio, many of them being various isos.

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Larry Jandro
Video Engineering & Equipment Rentals
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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