DVL-Digest 945 - Postings: Index Any way to clean old tapes ? Hi8 -> DV If not Sony -- How about Dell Laptops ??? Moving cars PAL or NTSC for transfer to film? Any way to clean old tapes ? - Adam Wilt I could probably triple my business if there is any way to clean old, > mildewy tapes. I have heard rumours of a VHS tape cleaner (not machine), > but have never been able to find one. > I get at least five calls a week asking for this service....any ideas ? Try the "AV Media Matters" list at http://www.topica.com (a list about recovery and preservation of magnetic tape) and http://www.vidipax.com. Cheers, Adam Wilt Hi8 -> DV - Adam Wilt Looks more likely from the postings that the poster's system is screwed up and dysfunctional -- nothing that wiping the drive clean and reinstalling everything wouldn't fix. Grin. Or Grimace. Cheers, Adam Wilt If not Sony -- How about Dell Laptops ??? - Adam Wilt Dell's support is also excellent which is a big issue with laptops due > to their proprietary nature. This may be true for VARs and corporate IT departments, for which Dell rolls out the red carpet and does a superb job. Scuttlebutt has it their attitude towards individual end users is decidedly different, and my own experience just trying to get off their junkmail list tells me they won't give you the time of day unless you're doing tends of thousands of dollars of business with them anually. Caveat emptor. Having said that the Dells do tend to be turning up as the canonical supported Windows laptop for many of the NLE systems available. As far as my own experience, IBM Thinkpads have never given me any problems despite being dropped (while operating!), squashed, overheated, and generally heavily used -- but I've never tried editing on one. For that I use my G3/400 Wallstreet Powerbook, which with OS 9.1 and FCP 2.0 appears to be uncrashable -- at least when I'm working in FCP! Cheers, AJW Moving cars - "Perry" Since it's the weekend, maybe I can be permitted a 'whenI' story! Around the early '70s, the BBC moved some location drama from film to video. I was on a crew that took over an existing series, and initially the producers wanted to do every shot exactly as would have been done on film. We thus had a 'rig' which consisted of a portable camera in the shooting car feeding into a microwave link that was picked up by a following truck containing the camera control unit and a 2inch Quad recorder (operated by yours truly). The only reference to the outside world in the truck were the camera pictures, but they of course were many seconds out of sync with what your guts told you the road was doing. The bottom line was that we found it impossible to watch pictures without vomiting!! In the end we managed by turning off all the monitors and only using the waveform monitors. I think we did a couple of episodes like this and then they rewrote the scripts to avoid all this silliness! It was another 10+ years before BetacamSP came along to make recording in the car itself a common scenario. Perry Mitchell Video Consultant http://www.perrybits.co.uk PAL or NTSC for transfer to film? - Adam Wilt ...houses recommending that we shoot in PAL... and > others recommending that we shoot in NTSC... There are some excellent NTSC transfer houses these days. All else being equal (and remember that it never is in the real world), PAL will give you theoretically better results, but the 4% speed change and the annoyance of dealing with PAL in an NTSC world may outweight that for you. > Also, what are the advantages/disadvantages of the Canon XL-1 versus the > Sony VX-2000 and VX-1000 when considering a video to film transfer? Canon: usable Frame Movie Mode (for PAL xfer only): among other things, lest you see the identical motion rendering you'll get on the final film. However the edge enhancement of the XL1 is not tweakable and the Canon is the oworst at handling high contrast (blown-out whites) and vertical smear (dead giveaway it was shot on tape). VX1000: best of the bunch in terms of having a filmlike spatial MTF, with a comparatively smooth rolloff of high-frequency detail and minimal chip-induced aliasing. Tweakable edge enhancement. No usable Frame Movie Mode (or equivalent) when it comes to a film blowup. Slightly noisy picture which may or may not be to your liking; adds a bit of texture and helps hide any quantization error and banding. VX2000: Somewhat sharper and cleaner pix than the VX1000 and much better in low light. But fairly coarse CCDs lead to excessive aliasing on certain picture material, IMHO. Other than that it's VX1000-like. Best of the bunch with high contrast and vertical smear. Cheers, AJW (diese posts stammen von der DV-L Mailingliste - THX to Adam Wilt and Perry Mitchell :-) [up] |
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