<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi, Joe, </div><br><div><div>On Apr 18, 2010, at 8:11 AM, J Padavic wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">I am trying to help out a local Lyons Club here in Kansas.<br>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.<br>Do you have any contacts that would be able to help us?<p style="font-style: italic; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><font size="3">Thanks,</font></p><p style="font-style: italic; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><font size="3">Joe Padavic<br>(913)449-7419<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.teardropvideo.com">www.teardropvideo.com</a></span><br><span style="text-decoration: underline; ">Selling Memories, Emotions and Teardrops of Happiness</span></font></p></div></div></span></blockquote></div><div><div>I've posted this to the QuadList, and you should be hearing directly from members who can help.</div><div><br></div><div>We' recommend you have the transfer done with an uncompressed, independent frame format on hard drive, and then make any derivative copies from that.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Regular inspection of the media and migration to "new" media (either newer formats or fresh media) can help ensure preservation of the content.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope we haven't overwhelmed you with too much information.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd expect you'll have some e-mails or calls from QuadList members even as soon as this morning.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br></div></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary for the <a href="http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/"><font color="#0018ea" style="color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "><u>QuadVideotapeGroup.com</u></font></a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; ">: </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Preserving Tape, Equipment and the Knowledge to use them, in conjunction with the Library of Congress</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com"><u>ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</u></a></font></div></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>