Re: High resolution digital recorders


"Mike Rivers" <mrivers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Oct 18, 7:19 pm, "Arny Krueger" <ar...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Right - professionals schedule their time so that jobs can be completed
on
schedule, even when everything doesn't go right the first time.

Professionals often have to work to other peoples' schedules. And they
need sleep, too. And beer, and hot tubs.

Given the actual amount of time required, this is a tempest in a teapot.

Since none of the recorders we've been discussing (except for Scott
who still uses tape) uses media that can be practically put directly
on the shelf even though it can be physically removed from the
recorder,

Huh?

I have a number of pieces of CF sitting on a shelf in my store room.

it has to be transferred to some other medium eventually for storage.

It may be preferable to offload CF to other media this week, because of the
relative economics. However, the cost of CF has been falling at the usual
rapid speed for solid state memory, or faster. For example late this spring
I paidover $40 for a 4GB CF card. Today, I can get 4 GB for more like $30.

The reason why I offload the files I record on CF is to edit them with a
PC. This has nothing to do with backup, even though a backup function is
accomplished at the same time.

It's my preference to do that when I'm not under pressure with real time
tasks.

Scheduling that time is no biggie because it is not a lot of time. The
operation need not be attended except at the start, and sometime after the
finish. Probability of success of a copy run that starts sucessfully is
extremely high.

There are few random effects - if you've ever started a successful copy with
a given set of equipment, it will work the next time. CF is way, way more
reliable than analog tape or DAT. DAT in particular could be a bit of a
crap shoot, especially for a long recording. Besides, I don't think there
were such things as 4 or 8 hour recordings on standard audio DAT tape.

We're not talking about copying or loading analog tapes or DAT tapes which
is usually done in real time. Actual obseved speed for copying off CF has
been something like 1/20 of recorded time with slow CF, faster with fast CF.
IOW I think I've been copying 1 hour's worth of 16/44 recordings in 3
minutes or less.


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