Posted by P.C. Ford on 12/23/07 08:42

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:46:31 -0800, "Richard Crowley"
<rcrowley@xp7rt.net> wrote:

>"Jim" <jimmy AT hotmail.com> wrote ...
>> "Richard Crowley" wrote ...
>>> "Jim" wrote ...
>>>> A question for the skeptical, professional, and those in the know.....
>>>>
>>>> Looking at a Sony HVR-A1U listed as mint in box with all accessories.
>>>> I am told hours are:
>>>> Operation: 0 x 10H
>>>> Drum Run: 0 x 10H
>>>> Tape Run: 0 x 10H
>>>> Threading: 4 x 10
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Its never been turned on but had the tape inserted 40 times..?
>>>
>>> No. It means that it has <10 hours of operation,
>>> <10 hours of Drum running, and <10 hours of
>>> tape running. But it has had tape threaded (but
>>> not necessarily moving) for at least 40 hours.
>>> You must turn it on to thread tape, and the
>>> counters don't run when powered down.
>>
>> Thanks for the response.
>> Yea.. duh me. It won't click 1x10 till 10 hours. so 0x10 is up to 9.99
>> hours.
>>
>> Isn't threading the # of times a tape was threaded thru the heads?
>> Basically how many times a tape was inserterted and the threading
>> operation performed?
>> Thus the fact that there is no H in that integer?
>>
>> So that means that the camera has pretty much run less than 10 hours and
>> had a cassette put in 40 times.
>
>I don't think so. I've never seen any equipment that counted
>the number of TIMES a tape had been threaded. I think they
>merely dropped the "H" accidentally. "Threading Hours" is
>a common metric. "Threading times" is not.
>

As I understand it, the threading count is the number of _times_ a
cassette has been inserted.

My former partner in a camera refused to learn how to use Final Cut on
his new Mac with a Cinema display. He preferred instead to do tape to
tape editing by bouncing tape between two cameras.

The threading count was very high.

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