This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: Way OT - new product announcement from Sony?

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

[Avid-L2] Re: Way OT - new product announcement from Sony?

Wilson,
Wasn't the change in time code head do in part to issues that the old position was subject to timecode drift depending on tape tension? IIRC there was issues on the 200s with the distance from the time code head to the actual video head drum shifting based on tape tension dither or a tension arm moving to compensate. Wasn't the revised postition closer to the CTL stack and not prone to this error. I'm amazed I never new that exact change but ABC never had any BVU-200s in our edit bays and ABC had VO-5850s running as West Coast feed back up that the tape ops would manually frame bump into sync listening to the audio of the 1 inch master and the 3/4 machine. I mean really net back up not even on a BVU-800?

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Wilson Chao wrote:
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> Terry,
>
> If you write about "those" machines to mean the VO-2850s shown in the
> YouTube clip, you were "boned" by Sony Broadcast. When they introduced the
> BVU-800, they moved the position of the timecode head by 14 frames relative
> to where it had been in the BVU-200. So for quite a while there were two
> standards in use (the old and the new). If you were using a VO-2850 w.
> timecode, it must have been modified by a 3rd-party kit, as timecode wasn't
> available from Sony on those machines. And that 3rd-party kit could of
> course only conform to one of the two "standards". Not their fault.
>
> Wilson
> On Jan 21, 2013 2:00 PM, "Terence Curren" wrote:
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> > Oh man that brings back bad memories. Offlined a whole show on those and
> > the online was a disaster until we figured out that the Timecode was 14
> > frames off. that was because they added the TC heads later and they were
> > that far down the tape path with no compensation. It was fine if you only
> > worked on those machines, but as soon as you interfaced with the rest of
> > the world you were boned.
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "SP" wrote:
> > >
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ttCiGsBxJnA
> > >
> > > Check out the "small" remote.
> > >
> > > This was the first system I used as a professional editor.
> > >
> > > Steve Pomerantz
> > > www.stevepomerantzeditorial.com
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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