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OT: taping over and over and over old tape
I’m getting close to finishing up a project here. In order to show it to my boss I master it out to tape and hand it off to him. He comes back and tells me the changes. I make the changes and hand the new version back to him. Well, I’ve just been taping over the old version on the same tape. I’ve done this a few times now. I was just curious how many times one can do this without any adverse affects. I noticed on the last version the audio drifted out of sync by the end and was curious if this was from reusing this tape over and over, or if I have bigger fish to fry. Thanks for any feedback.
Jason
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Your sync issue is not caused by recording on a tape a few times, and thats especially if its a DV taoe, because its a digital recording. If you’re mastering to mini DV, obviously those tapes are tiny and fragile and prone to digital dropouts. Not a good idea to use them over and over again. The more robust tapes like digibeta and betaSP can be used quite a few times in a well maintained deck.
DRW
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miniDV and DVCAM are fragile tape formats. I would use a new tape for your final/final/final/final/that’s a wrap final master.
D-Beta and BetaSP are more robust and can be rerecorded on 10+ times or more, at least if you buy a premium brand of tape.
HTH,
BryceDon’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…
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If you clean your heads as recommended by your deck’s manufacturer, you should be able to get 4 or 5 passes out of any decent quality DV tape before you start to see dropouts. But be safe & use a new tape for the final master.
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I keep hearing this, but I can count the number of digital DV dropouts I’ve seen occur from overdubbing tapes on one hand. However I can’t even start to count how many dropouts I’ve see on a regular basis on betacam sp. On betacam, seems like the littlest amount of dust causes dropouts in both the cameras (especially) and then in the record/play heads in the deck.
That whole world of editing around dropouts and trying to figure out where the dropout came from (cam, digitize, or record) just went away when I started using DV.
DVCam tapes are supposed to be far superior in durability. But at 4-5 times the cost, is it worth it? The have nicer cases. 🙂
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