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This website and mailing list is focused on 2" Quadruplex Videotape:
The Recorders, Recording, Playback, Maintenance, Equipment Design and Tape Preservation,
and the Preservation of Knowledge about these subjects so that knowledge can
be used by new people today or years from now to preserve the content contained on Quad tapes.
Sharing your experiences working with Quad tapes, recorders, their quirks and foibles can be very helpful in migrating the thousands of aging Quad videotapes now just sitting on shelves at archives world-wide.
Members of this group are working with the Library of Congress National Audio Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia at the request of Steven Nease, the Chief Technology Officer for the NAVCC.
Historical stories or personal recollections are welcome. We all need a laugh, an "Ah-Ha!" or to
remember when "that happened to me."
Quad Videotape Group at Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference, 2008
Savannah, Georgia, Nov. 11-15
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Tuesday Night Dinner Members of the Quad Videotape Group enjoyed food and conversation after Tuesday sessions or sightseeing at Isaac's on Drayton restaurant in downtown Savannah, GA Most of the group gathered in the flashscan8.us suite-Rm. 532 at the Marriott. While there, they got a look at the flashstransfer Ted was prepping for the Thurs-Fri Vendor Cafe.
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L to R: Gary Adams, daVinci Systems, co designer of the Time Logic controller for telecine, Ted Langdell, flashscan8.us, Cliff Hasenbalg, Moving Image, LLC, Colorist Bob Campbell, Pat Shevlin, Dir. of Engineering, The Media Preserve, Jon-Erik Gilot, Sales, The Media Preserve/Preservation Technologies. Photo: Linda Adams |
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Wednesday Night Dinner Quad Videotape Group members went to a different restaurant in Savannah just as it was closing, but talked their way in to a good meal. Seated around a table like "Meet the Press," they kept a close ear on Myron Lenenski playing Tim Russert with Pat Shevlin as the guest. |
| L to R: Ted Langdell, flashscan8.us, Co-worker of Maurice Schecter, DuArt, New York, Myron Lenenski, Owner, CinePost, Atlanta, Maurice Schecter, Chief Engineer, DuArt, New York, Jim Wheeler, retired Ampex engineer/current consultant, Pat Shevlin, Dir. of Engineering, The Media Preserve Photo: Bystander w/Ted's cell phone |
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AMIA Booth Setup A Quad was present at the Vendor Cafe, shipped in from New York City. As the song goes, "Something happened along the way..." causing DuArt Chief Engineer Maurice Schecter to spend several hours with tweaker in hand. The Ampex VR-3000 portable did make a picture, but not to member Maurice's satisfaction. An Ampex playback processor was used, along with a digital TBC to recover an upstate New York NBC affiliate's off-network recording of Billy Joel on Saturday Night Live. |
Gary Adams, daVinci Systems, talks with Maurice Schecter, Chief Engineer, DuArt, New York, about the VR-3000 |
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De-pinking film In the flashscan8.us booth, Colorist and Quad Videotape Group member Bob Campbell demonstrates some techniques for de-pinking film using the 16mm flashtransfer's color correction tools during the Vendor Cafe.
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