Dennis Lloyd (dennis.lloyd@latimes.com)
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:55:14 -0700
>I am sure that Anthony method is the proper way to do a video recording.
>Before action, roll the camera for some second first, after the action,
>still roll the tape for a few more seconds. The method will make sure that
>what you want is being recorded and will not be erased during next time when
>you record another scene.
>
>Vincent
>
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>> *D傲: Re: time code on Mini DV tapes
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 6/9/99 11:46:12 AM, awu@vfs.com writes:
>>
>> >If you review
>> >your footage, you can press the end search button to cue the tape back to
>> >the end, but the moment you eject the tape, the camera "forgets" where
>> >the end of the timecode is. A frame of blank tape will reset the time
>> code
>> >to 00:00 partway through the tape, making logging footage frustrating.
>> >
>> >My brainwave is: should I "blacken" the tape prior to usage in order to
>> >preburn time code onto the tape? I have only recently heard of this idea
>> >to be used on VHS tapes before recording apparently to increase the
>> >recording quality. Is this a good idea?
>>
>> No. It assembles during record. The only way to continue your time
>> code
>> is to take a moment and back up over previously shot footage and then the
>> camera will pick up that time code (I'm pretty sure of this.... not
>> positive!)
>> This also means that, when finished an important scene or shoot, roll
>> 10
>> seconds of the ground, the sky... something you can cut into later to
>> continue the time code.
>>
>> In other news... I had this same problem when the internal lithium
>> battery went out in my pro Hi8 camcorder. We didn't realize this until we
>> were in post and the time code kept resetting. So we created sub-names for
>>
>> all the resets in the time code: Reel: Hunt1, Hunt1.2, Hunt1.3, Hunt1.4.
>> It's not the greatest of solutions because the batch capture forces
>> the
>> tape to eject when asking for the next reel. We have to A) turn the deck
>> from
>> remote to local, B) insert the tape, C) fast forward to the next time code
>>
>> reset, D) but the deck into remote, E) tell the computer we _have_
>> inserted
>> the next reel.
>>
>> I hope this helps.
>>
>> Anthony
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