Re: Question for those who are using NL location recorders.

Thanks Jeff-

That would seem to indicate that file corruption would be most likely on the
DVD. That makes perfect sense. One more question. There was some talk
about burning two disks, one two-track for telecine and editorial, and a
second iso-disk for sound. I talked at length with the Tech Super at Encore
this morning and he said that can easily strip off the first two "tracks"
from a poly Bwav file for transfer, and then send the DVD along to sound
with no problems. That would seem to negate the need for two disks. Any
thoughts?

Regards,

D.

"Jeff Wexler" <jw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:BEF41889.96CE%jw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On 7/8/05 11:04 AM, in article l7udnfGpDMSjXVPfRVn-pQ@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
> "Douglas
> Tourtelot" <tourtelot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> How many of you are doing a backup recording on linear tape? Those who
>> are;
>> have you needed it? Those who aren't; have YOU needed it and what solved
>> the problem of not having it.
>>
>> I guess this concerns my thoughts that the back-up is "automatically"
>> created on the HDD while the track is mirrored to the DVD-RAM. But a
>> corrupted file is still a corrupted file on the HDD. Should this be a
>> concern?
>>
>> Input from long-time NL users is appreciated.
>
> Jeff Wexler comments:
> I may just have been lucky, but I have never had a corrupted file on the
> internal hard drive (primary recording) or ever lost any audio. I have had
> disks (several different formats and types over the years) that have been
> bad, and I have had to make another disk. When I was still recording a DAT
> backup, something I no longer do, I did have failures in the procedures
> used
> in post once they received a disk, and in these instances transfers had to
> made off my backup DAT.
>
> I cannot speak for the reliability of recording to the internal hard drive
> for machines other than the Deva (and of course, machines without a hard
> drive need to be assessed in another manner), but I have never needed any
> of
> the backup recordings I made due to a failure of the primary recording to
> the hard drive on either of my Devas (my old Deva II and the new Deva IV).
> This is after having done 12 movies and approx. the equivalent of 1200
> sound
> rolls.
>
> Regards, Jeff Wexler
>


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