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Tape not dead yet (again)
I was at the BBC Television Centre in West London yesterday. Stupidly, the BBC is leaving its historic home to live in a shed outside Manchester. I was one of 120 ex-staff making a last visit.
In the gallery of TC3 we ran into a technical manager and one of our group asked what the BBC records on these days. Answer – “Mostly tape, XDCam usually.Sometimes we have clients who want stuff on hard drives, but then we have to go through all the stuff about codecs and compression”. Which codec? “Usually DNx of some description”.
Slightly OT – Someone passed this memo on to me –
“Hi all,
I received confirmation from Alan Fraser at Fuji today that there is
no more Fuji print stock available for sale worldwide. This means
that we cannot purchase any additional Fuji stock for future use as of
today.
Please review your Fuji project pipeline (if any) and Fuji inventory
and let me know if there will be any issues you foresee.”That was pretty much it for filmed features. Pinewood are apparently stopping processing the stuff in the summer.
Bernie
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[Bernard Newnham] “Mostly tape, XDCam usually”
So….which one is it?
Mostly tape?
Or XDcam usually?
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I’m fairly unconcerned about whether it’s dead or not, but damned glad I don’t have to use it!
“Constituo, ergo sum”
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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Tape is way dead (except perhaps for my purposes.) Is film dead? Doesn’t really look like it.
Tim
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[Bob Woodhead] “I’m fairly unconcerned about whether it’s dead or not, but damned glad I don’t have to use it!”
Tape or tapeless, I prefer recording devices that can accept external sync and have decent onboard audio recording abilities. Multicam field shoots with GoPros, DSLRs and dual system audio recording are things of the devil. I’ve done a surprising amount of work on productions that still use tape because, well, it meets their needs and they have production pipelines that function like well oiled machines.
XDCAM discs are probably still my favorite medium as I think you get the best of both the tape and the tapeless words of course once off the shelf cards get cheap enough they’ll be used as shoot-once media too.
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[TImothy Auld] “Is film dead?”
it’s not dead, it just smells funny
Steve Connor
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[Jeremy Garchow] “[Bernard Newnham] “Mostly tape, XDCam usually”
So….which one is it?
Mostly tape?
Or XDcam usually?”
Sorry – should have written H instead of X – HDCam – slip of the keyboard.
Bernie
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I’m with Andrew. XDCAM discs have to be my favorite media at the moment.
A show that is shooting (at the company both he and I happen to work at) is also using tape. DVCPRO HD.
Shane
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[Bernard Newnham] “Sorry – should have written H instead of X – HDCam – slip of the keyboard.”
That makes more sense.
If I had an HDCam infrastructure, I’m sure I’d try to squeeze as much out of it as I could as well.
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Indeed. Always has.
Tim
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ESPN London out in Chiswick Park is still HDCAM up the wazoo – reckon they’ll be a long time transitioning off it.
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