Re: TC DAT for studio features ?


"Marc Wielage" <mfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Dec 29, 2005, Lee Ascher <leeascher@xxxxxxxxxxx> commented:
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>> Are there any Production Sound Mixers who are still using TC DAT (as
>> primary recorder) for studio features, or features over $3M? Replies
>> may be emailed to me off list, if you prefer. Thank you!
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> We routinely get DAT tapes from several lower-budget feature and TV
> projects
> at Technicolor/Hollywood. Our non-linear department transfers all this
> material to DVD-RAM, logs the takes, and we use the discs during the
> telecine
> dailies transfer. There are also a few fairly big-budget shows that used
> DAT
> very recently; INTO THE WEST for Dreamworks/TNT is one I can remember, and
> it
> sounded fine.
>
> Also, my experience is that 90% of the commercial dailies we get are still
> being provided on DAT. If there's time available, we'll dub the material
> before the dailies session to DVD-RAM, but if not, we transfer directly to
> videotape from the DAT. We prefer to do it from DVD simply because that
> eliminates any problem with pre-roll, particularly in tail-slate
> situations.
>
> --MFW

It's a world apart in Seattle for telecine. If you hand them a DVD they
would have to dub it to TC DAT to use it in telecine. I've been calling the
telecine houses for a year now asking when they will support non linear
transfers and they all say there is no demand. So either someone post syncs
a non linear file or they use a DAT but the two do not meet in telecine.




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