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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Well…excitement abounds…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>We now have the machine back
into good working order. It is producing really nice looking pictures…very
stable…no noticeable banding on output…boy, it feels good (I hope I
am not speaking too soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Ok…funny story with this.
We have the quads in a different building from our main office. It isn’t
the best location, but it is secure. It is actually a museum, mainly
consisting of broadcast hardware (old studio cameras, tower lights, audio
equipment, etc.) from Cincinnati’s broadcast past…featuring some
quite famous people (Ruth Lyons, Marty Breneman, Nick Clooney…).
Anyway, they are rebuilding this building…almost literally from the
ground up. We showed up on Tuesday and hit the power for our air
compressor…nothing. It was acting like there is either a blown fuse
or the circuit was tripped.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Now, this particular circuit
breaker is in a breaker box in the ceiling, next to the air handlers for the
building. It is dark up there…so here I go, climbing up this ladder
to check the circuit. Did I mention it is dark up there…so the only
way you can check the circuit is by feel. Well that isn’t doing me
any good, so I climb back down and get a flash light (yeah…should have
thought of that first). The circuit is not tripped…what the heck…so
I start looking at the wires coming into the box…they are
disconnected. So I follow them to the box they come from…wires aren’t
only disconnected…they are cut off. No more air compressor…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>As part of the building rehab,
they are re-doing the electric. The electricians didn’t know that
box was feeding our circuit. Heck, it wasn’t part of what they
needed, so they decided to just take it out altogether. So, to make a
long story short, our large compressor won’t be working again any time
soon. Fortunately, we have a back up compressor that runs on 120 v, and
while it does work hard to try and keep up, it does a fine job operating one
machine at a time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>So, since we didn’t have a
compressor on Tuesday, all we could do was an alignment with bars being fed
into the machine…no way to put the machine in play mode because no
air. Today we got air and were able to fine tune the adjustments and got
the picture looking really good.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Some interesting observations…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>Blanking on house
playback is really wide… Apparently, this is necessary for
something to do with recording (according to the manual), but if set strictly
to the manual settings it is almost too wide. We aren’t going to
record anyway. For playback, our plan is to use House mode instead of
Regen (any thoughts on this??)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>System runs better
in manual track mode as compared to auto track mode.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>Originally we
thought we would have to run the system in tone wheel mode, but it seems to do
fine in Pix lock…at least with the tapes we’ve tested so far.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>Video signal is
surprisingly stable. We will be recording to Digital Betacam from these
machines, so only testing will tell if it is stable enough. I am
concerned about low-band B&W video, since there appears to be no burst in
the video (as you would expect)…not sure if D-beta will like this or not.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>5.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>We were running a
1-hour tape. The reel brakes need some adjustment, as the mass of this
reel was just too much for the brake to stop it by itself. This also
caused tension issues. But, switching to spot reels caused less problems
(we originally thoughts the brakes weren’t working at all…but it
just appears as if they need some adjustment).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>6.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>I take back what I
said about the manuals not being well-written…they actually are pretty
good. One of the challenges is that sometimes they reference a board by
number (3A20 for example) and other times by name…and the names in the
manual are not always the same as on the board because of abbreviation.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I do not know exactly why we had
the set back we did the other day…all I can guess is that we did all of
our adjustments without the bars generator genlocked to the machine…which
caused our adjustments to be “off”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>We are going to get into transferring
this week…I’ll keep you posted as to how it is going. And
then onto the second machine…I want to get it up and running as a spare.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Anyway, a BIG ‘OL THANKS
to the people on the Quad List group for your support, help and insight…
You know the genlock thing the other day was just one of those things…We
checked the signal coming from the generator…and we checked bars…but
we never checked to make sure they were actually genlocked (as I mentioned,
apparently the gunlock input on the bars generator doesn’t work).
Again…sometimes it is the simple things that we take for granted that
cause the biggest problems. The video drifting should have been a major
clue…but we were having trouble seeing video output. Once we got
that hooked up and with the insight of some of the people from this list, we
figured out the problem and were able to get back on track.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks again!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>John Walko<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Media Archive Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Scene Savers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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