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

[Chris Hedemark]

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On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 03:41 PM, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> Actually, I was planning on recording in LP mode, which gives 90
> minutes.  Is there any reason I shouldn't do that?

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.

Like I said, I'll work with whatever you send me, but IMHO it is worth 
while to try to make it look as good as possible (even if that means 
possibly eating into a second tape).  But if the video looks more like 
a home movie than a professional documentary, PBS will never touch it 
(public access cable will take *anything* though).

Anyone here work at WUNC?  I'm interested in hearing what it takes to 
get something on the air there.

Chris Hedemark
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