Posted by Richard Crowley on 12/23/07 09:28

"Richard Crowley" wrote ...
> "P.C. Ford" wrote ...
>> 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.
>
> I've seen many pieces of equipment with "threaded hours",
> but never "threading count". Can you give an example
> of where this can be found?

Well, I downloaded the PDF manual for the camcorder,
and INDEED it does keep a *count* of tape threadings
rather than the "threaded hours". I would be fascinated
to know why they think that the number of threadings
is significant and the threaded hours is not.

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