[QuadList] 2" Quad Tape Transfer needed in Kansas--Reply directly

[Ted Langdell]

Hi, Joe,

On Apr 18, 2010, at 8:11 AM, J Padavic wrote:

> I am trying to help out a local Lyons Club here in Kansas.
> The Leawood Lyons Club has a 30 second commercial from 1978 on 2"  
> Quad format tape that they would like transferred to a computer  
> based format or DVD.
> Do you have any contacts that would be able to help us?
> Thanks,
>
> Joe Padavic
> (913)449-7419
> www.teardropvideo.com
> Selling Memories, Emotions and Teardrops of Happiness
>

I've posted this to the QuadList, and you should be hearing directly  
from members who can help.

We' recommend you have the transfer done with an uncompressed,  
independent frame format on hard drive, and then make any derivative  
copies from that.

That will preserve the quality of the material as recorded on Quad,  
without compression or "guesstimating" what should be happening on  
various frames, as happens with MPEG used on DVD's.

10-bit YUV uncompressed NTSC with two 48KHz 24-bit audio channels will  
run less than 2GB, so the material could be saved to a Data DVD  
instead of a hard drive and sent to you.

Having two Data DVD's made would lessen the likelyhood of a problem on  
either disc, and  allow the Lions Club to keep one, and for one to be  
stored at the local municipal library with a conventional disc for a  
DVD player to allow access.

Since no one can guarantee the life-span of any storage material,  
should the Lions Club want to keep this material for a long time, a  
backup onto other media such as hard drives, Digital Betacam,  DVCAM  
or Mini-DV, LTO tape can help.

Regular inspection of the media and migration to "new" media (either  
newer formats or fresh media) can help ensure preservation of the  
content.

Hope we haven't overwhelmed you with too much information.

I'd expect you'll have some e-mails or calls from QuadList members  
even as soon as this morning.

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary for the  QuadVideotapeGroup.com:
Preserving Tape, Equipment and the Knowledge to use them, in  
conjunction with the Library of Congress
ted at quadvideotapegroup.com

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