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- On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Intelligent Light wrote:
- > 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.
- > Tom Rennen
- > Intelligent light Digital Imaging
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- This is the exact reason why Lightspeed videos do not exceed 90 minutes
- each. betaSP tapes hold 90 mins. Our first couple issues went over this
- and we had to use two masters. The duplicators tried to edit the two
- together but there were always glitches in the middle of the video. Each
- BetaSP tape usually has an extra minute or two of footage too, which was
- great for our last issue which ran 93 minutes long... I think there was
- 10 seconds of video left on the tape!
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- There are ways around all of this but to do it each month is just not
- worth it. If we can whip out a tape that is 60-90 mins per month, we and
- most of our subscribers are happy.
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- MC
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