[Avid-L2] Re: OT: Attention to Detail?

No this was a batch capture and about half way through something must have been repatched or the afore mentioned Bone Head was feeding the avid EtoE through a second VTR without knowing it and that got repatched midstream to an input from a 1400 set to internal bars. This would account for some clips being shuttling video instead of color bars. So some 50 plus tapes were hand loaded and proceeded to get captured with the wrong video into the Avid. Sheesh how can you miss that many.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jimmy Dutt <bytemonkey@...> wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 29, 2009, at 12:12 AM, guanacaa@... wrote:
>
> > That assistant loaded the wrong reel, then crashed out on the couch.
>
> My first thought was un-rewound tapes with "tail bars", which the
> assistant thought was "head bars" and hot-rolled as-is into the rig
> without any form of machine control (or pre/post verification
> obviously). But that seems silly - even a common ingest ferret would
> have caught that before heading down to the hookah bar.
>
> And then I thought hey - I've seen some really fuckered-up "clones" in
> my day - so it may have happened at that stage (if that stage actually
> existed). The dubber may have just loaded in the tape ASSUMING it was
> rewound and thought those were head bars - hit "go" on both decks -
> and then walked away... coming back to two stopped / rewound decks,
> checking to see if the "head bars" stuck, then on to "cloning" the
> next tape.
>
> And then I thought hey - who the hell wants to pay $$ for the original
> tapes these days - let alone a "clone"; and so I'm back at square one
> wondering how the hell shit like this can still happen in an
> incredibly competitive job market.
>
> > I've I've been exhausted enough to sleep through captures myself,
> > but I always had enough sense of CYA to check my work afterwards.
>
> I once nodded off briefly while punching in the top half of a lead
> vocal verse - awakening to the poor singer screaming in a panic.
> Thankfully I was punching into a spare track on the tape or else it
> would have been gone. Tape erase heads don't generally permit any
> "undo" :/
>
> Zzzzzzz...
>
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