Chad Brewer
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John,
After thinking about it further, if they are charging you more to do a tape layoff from a file instead of a tape, you’re NOT dealing with a good company. If you want to make your life easier and save money, call us at TeleVersions in Chicago. We can master tapes for you and ship them wherever they need to go. Plus, we have price discounts based on volume – if you want to do 13 episodes, we’ll give you a better price than for just one or two.800.942.9488
You can ask for me, Monday thru Friday, 11am to 7pm.Chad Brewer
Senior Tape Operator
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James,
Thanks for the lead, but the number is disconnected and there is no web presence for the company…The search continues….I’m keeping this thread alive in the hopes that some old camera man will find it and say, “You still use NiCad battery packs in 2010? I’ve got 20 in my basement that I no longer use. I’ll sell them to you for $50 a piece if they pull tape.”Believe me though, my wishful thinking only exists on the Creative Cow.
Chad Brewer
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You’re sending it to Colorado from Illinois?
Check us out, we’re in Illinois:
https://www.televersions.comYou’d save on shipping etc. and we can handle every file format and have every broadcast video deck in HD and SD – we’re the Midwest’s fully equipped Broadcast Video facility.
Chad Brewer
Senior Tape Operator
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Thanks Mark.
I’d love to know if you know of someone you can service ProPac 14’s. Still trying to revive some of them before I buy new ones at $300 per.Chad Brewer
Senior Tape Operator
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A lot of newer Canon cameras produce tapes that only playback in Canon cameras or Canon MiniDV decks..My guess is that the facility you sent the tape to doesn’t have a Canon deck and therefore cannot get proper playback. I’ve seen this many, many times. They should allow you to bring your camera in and use that for playback to do the transfer.
Chad Brewer
Senior Tape Operator
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Anton Bauer told me they have NEVER re-celled batteries and that they don’t condone anyone else doing it because of possible spec parameter issues with their chargers…Looks like it’s back to $300 per new battery…
Chad Brewer
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Until so many stations and media outlets upgrade FROM BetaSP, we still ship BetaSP’s all over the WORLD!…4:2:2 color space still beats cheap digital 4:1:1 color space. When people still request 1 inch video, we ship them 1 inch video. In some ways, the future of our current world may be more questionable than the future of BetacamSP, but that’s for a different forum.
Chad Brewer
Senior Tape Operator
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Samuel,
Did you read my email response that you sent to our company about this request?
I understand you may not want to pay shipping to Chicago since you are going to NYC, but we’re still here for you and can probably beat any NYC price.I can only lead a horse to water….
Chad Brewer
Senior Tape Operator
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Despite ending the day in 29.97, it does matter which frame rate you edit in, because if it is going to leave 23.98 and go to 29.97 for broadcast, you would want to introduce the pulldown with the highest end hardware at your disposal at the right time in your workflow. In this case, since your source material was 16mm film, you had to take the pulldown from the telecine and then stay in 29.97 to edit for broadcast. When you have the choice of frame rate upon acquisition, you would start in 29.97 for broadcast and 23.98/24 for film destination most importantly or web use or whatever. Personally, I don’t see the need for the 23.98 “film look” for web videos for anything besides saving a “little” drive space..The key is gearing your entire workflow from the start towards what your destination/deliverable is.
Chad Brewer
Senior Tape Operator
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If it is for broadcast, it should be 29.97…Nothing is broadcast in 23.98..You will have to live with the pulldown and any motion issues that it introduced from the telecine transfer, but if you reverse telecine back to 23.98 now, things will get worse and nobody will broadcast your material in 23.98 anyway. All the stations and major networks will want “America’s” framerate: 29.97. Stay where you are…
Chad Brewer
Senior Tape Operator
TeleVersions