Here’s a good one…..I had a series of eight 1″ tapes about 90 minutes each produced in 2001. The client was streaming 240 x 120 windows media files…back then that was the codec of choice on PCs. Don’t know the last time I made a Windows Media codec encode.
I was commissioned to fire up the old 1″ machine, which I did brilliantly, and digitized the eight tapes to a luscious 640 x 480 MP4 and send to the client. They were impressed! Both with the newfound quality and the small ish size.
Used Adobe Media encoder to make the files on the new iMac Pro and it took about 8 minutes per video to encode!
By the way I used to be able to spool up the 1″ machine in less than 5 seconds back in the heyday of four machines in the taperoom, and today I had it down to just under 8 seconds in my finest attempt.
Visitors honestly weren’t impressed with the 1″ machine. Thought it belonged in a museum. I thought it was a thing of art!
Times have changed….luckily I have tried my darndest to change with them!
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com