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- Fernando Martins wrote:
- >
- > >We finished production on Sunday afternoon and completed the off line
- > >Monday. This thing is considerably larger than I thought it was going to be!
- > >The finished edit will run about 2 hours and 20 minutes!
- >
- > >We will, obviously, have to make this a 2 tape series, each running approx.
- > >1 hr. 10 mins. Our duplication, tape jackets, labels, and postage just
- > >doubled! We will be selling this series for $59.99. That is just $10 more
- >
- > What's the problem?! You don't have 180 mins tapes?! If you used those, you
- > wouldn't need to get more labels, duplicates, blah, blah, blah...
- >
- > Aha! I got it... You need to get the tape in the most standard way, so that it
- > can be played in most VCRs... So, I guess most people have 1H10m VCRs and just
- > some 'illuminated' have the 2H20m 'High Density' VCRs ;-) ...
- >
- > It's like 'Let's distribute 100Mb Zip disks since nobody has 1Gb Jaz Drives
- > yet!' :)
- >
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- > /_ /|/|
- > / / | fmartins@esoterica.pt
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- No, none of the above. We shoot in Betacam SP and you can,t master 2hrs
- and 20 min to a Betacam tape because the largest made is 90 mins. So,
- each edit master will have to be 1 hr and 10 mins. When the tapes go to
- duplication they will have to run each master to a vhs by itself thus
- producing a 2 tape series. You can,t stop in the middle of the
- dupication process, pause 500 tape decks, insert part two, and continue.
- At that point it becomes editing, not duplication. Your lesson in video
- is over for now.
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- Tom Rennen
- Intelligent light Digital Imaging
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