[Dan Brockett]

Hi:

Slow to me means that each card (8GB) takes a long time, like an hour or two. Multiply that times hundreds of cards we shot for a sitcom pilot and you have a bad bottleneck.

The max tape size is 300GB

We have this one https://www.quantum.com/Products/TapeDrives/DLT/SDLT600A/Index.aspx and it cost a lot, about $7,000.00 or $8,000.00 if I recall correctly?

Quantum works fine with the Macs as well as PCs

Yes, that is the only interface this thing has, ethernet.

Wanna buy one? Let me know, we may sell ours. As I said, we are having much better results archiving to DVCProHD tape. Restoring files from DLT takes forever and it is also very difficult to find files when you have 300GB worth of them on a single DLT tape.

Best,

Dan

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[Dan Brockett]

Hi:

We have a new Quantum 650 DLT drive, the one that can read timecode. I agree with Jerry, it’s reliable as heck but S L O W. Our new archival format for P2 is a 1200 DVCProHD deck. Kind of ridiculous that we are shooting P2 so that we can dub to tape but that’s what works for our workflow unfortunately.

A lot of the time now for interviews, we aren’t even shooting P2 anymore, we shoot tape by plugging the HVX into the 1200. Works great.

Dan

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I agree with Walter, unless you have a high end DVCAM deck like a DSR-1500 or above, the adaptors to convert everything to what you need would cost more than the K-Box. http://www.markertek.com has the K-box for $265.00. Buy it, you need it, trust us.

Love mine.

Dan

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HI all:

Guess I am just old school but I am amazed that nobody suggested tea rinsing white lab coats. I had a biotech client and was cursed with having to shoot white lab coats for years. I bought half a dozen of them in different sizes and tea rinsed them all. Whenever I would shoot scientists in the labs, I would bring my “magic” off-white lab coats dress the talent. Worked well and cut the blooming issue and exposure issues way down, although to be fair, even off-white is too damned reflective for video in many cases.

To tea rinse, dump five to ten teabags into a tub of about 3-4 gallons of warm water. Submerge white garments for about two to three minutes. You may have to experiment, depending on the amount of labcoats, strength of the tea, etc. Always start conservatively, you can always re-rinse the garments to get a more egg shell or off-white but it’s tough to get them to be whiter if you go too far.

A heck of a lot cheaper, faster and easier than messing with things in post.

Best,

Dan

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Hiya:

Composite out and RCA audio from K3 box to composite video in and audio in on DVD recorder. Pretty straight forward. No DVD recorders I have seen have component in except for professional models that are expensive.

Works great for us.

Dan

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Hi all:

Just to clarify, it’s 75 years for domestic distribution only.

Wait until you deal with stuff that is for international distribution for broadcast and home video distribution like I have to, then you will learn about the evil lawmakers in France, the U.K. and Germany where titles that are over 100 years (Trip to the Moon) old are still under copyright, it’s a nightmare.

Public domain is only public domain where you can prove it also. We work with all of the studios and they want a Thompson & Thompson or other reputable published source to verify PD, even if you get all rights cleared and PD from the Library of Congress/National Archives. There is common sense, then there are studio lawyers. Neither shall the twain meet.

Best,

Dan

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Hi Mitch:

Dell 2405 with the Kona 3 and BMD HDLink HD/SDI to DVI converter. I would like to buy the new Panasonic 17″ HD LCD monitor but have too many other items so we will see how the Dell works out. Obviously not for color correction but for editing, it should suffice.

Best,

Dan

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Hi Tony:

Hmm…don’t want to get into a shouting match with the dealers but do want to let all know who they were. Most of the dealers go by initials so that’s too obvious. Let’s just say that all three dealers have two or three letter initials and are included in the following string of letters BSCMPKM. All are in Hollywood/Burbank and none of them provided satisfactory service, two lied and none had even adequate follow up when questions or issues arose, even though we spent from tens of thousands of dollars to well over $100,000.00 with them.

Caveat Emptor

Dan

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Thanks for the recommendation Scott. I will give them a try.

Dan

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Hi guys:

I would only buy from an authorized dealer as Markertek and B&H are both authorized AJA dealers. I was just wondering if anyone had heard of another reputable authorized AJA dealer outside of California that was beating $2,499.00. No matter who I buy from, excellent technical support will be coming directly from AJA.

I have bought three different HVX-200 packages, cards and stores from three different local LA dealers in the past month (all authorized, all ‘reputable’ names in the broadcast/film business) and frankly, the service and support from all three has been adequate to poor. IMHO, VERY few dealers give good service and support anymore, especially on an item as hot as the HVX-200. Two of the three have outright lied to me and have not delivered the amounts of P2 cards that they had promised that they could, one outright lied and said that they were an authorized Panasonic dealer, where upon checking with Panasonic, I discovered that they were not.

My attitude these days is rapidly becoming one of just looking for the lowest price from an out of state authorized dealer and just dealing with the manufacturer/tech support directly myself. The first P2 store I bought was not set up with the correct driver to even read 8GB P2 cards, it could only read 4GB cards. It took me calling the dealers techinical support and hearing how clueless they were to hang up the phone and call Panasonic myself to have them send me the updated driver. Same so far with our Symphony Nitris, the dealer has been fairly clueless on this $90,000.00 editing system, all of our best technical support has been from dealing directly with AVID, the dealer just installed it, lied about the HD CRT monitor they sold us (they showed us a b-stock off of the floor that was working fine, but shipped us a new one missing the HD/SDI card. We had to wait an extra two weeks to use our HD monitor). On and on it goes.

Thanks for the advice and please heed my experience. Good dealers with knowledge that don’t lie are becoming a dying breed, especially here in LA.

Best,

Dan

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