[TriLUG] Recording Eric Raymond's Talk(s)

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 15:53, Chris Hedemark wrote:
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> On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 03:41 PM, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
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> > Actually, I was planning on recording in LP mode, which gives 90
> > minutes.  Is there any reason I shouldn't do that?
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> Yes, actually.  You're reducing the overall quality of your picture 
> when you do that.  On your average TV set it won't make much 
> difference, but on a higher end TV or monitor it will be noticeable 
> (especially when spliced in with footage from other cameras).  
> Everything should look as uniform as possible.  As long as the 
> resolution is similar between all of the cameras, I can go a long way 
> towards improving uniformity via color correction.  But the somewhat 
> degraded picture of LP footage is lost forever.

Actually, according to the link I previously posted, LP does *not*
reduce the quality.  Instead, it actually changes the track width.
It still uses the same bit rate and the same resolution.  However,
since the smaller track width is right at the edge of what current
equipment can read, if you move the tape between different cameras
there can be problems (if the cameras aren't perfectly aligned).

Cheers,
Tanner
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