Posted by Richard Crowley on 02/09/07 02:54

<geickmei@tampabay.rr.com> wrote ...
> This seems to have turned into an LP vs SP tirade, but that wasn't the
> question. Let me restate, begging your patience.

Vaudeville dialog from before you were born:
Patient: "Doc, it hurts when I do this!"
Doctor: "Well, then don't do that!"

> 1. Has anyone experienced sound dropouts in Mini DV, even at the SP
> speed?

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.

> 2. Has anyone tried the Firestore hard drive recorders to bypass the
> tape problems?
>
> 3. If so, how did you archive your shoot after downloading to the
> computer?

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.

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.

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