<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Seeing the words Chroma 90 brings back memories of really good looking masters, and really bad looking playbacks after a very few passes. We used it for master commercial recording and then quickly did all the dubs on good old 3M.<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>quadlist-request@quadvideotapegroup.com<br><b>To: </b>quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com<br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, August 31, 2012 10:00:13 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>QuadList Digest, Vol 50, Issue 47<br><br>Send QuadList mailing list submissions to<br> quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com<br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com<br><br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br> quadlist-request@quadvideotapegroup.com<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br> quadlist-owner@quadvideotapegroup.com<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of QuadList digest..."<br><br><br>This is the Digest of the QuadList. 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Re: Scotch 400 (Don Norwood)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:41:47 +0200<br>From: Shai Drori <srdbx@netvision.net.il><br>To: quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com<br>Subject: [QuadList] Scotch 400<br>Message-ID: <503FD00B.9090208@netvision.net.il><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-8-I; format=flowed<br><br>Hi All<br>I am digitizing an archive now that has among other media 28 reels of <br>scotch 400. When I checked them visually for sap or SSS or other <br>problems they actually looked fine. Could use a cleaning before playing <br>but they actually looked good. Is that possible? I was always under the <br>impression that all these are disasters.<br>With this in mind I would like to know what you think about the follow <br>work flow for preparing them for transfer.<br>1. clean and vacuum off dust.<br>2. remove flanges and clean them.<br>3. remove foam from top flange, even if it's in good shape and clean <br>flange from residue.<br>4. screw flanges back into place.<br>5. run tapes forward and back while cleaning tape surface from dirt and <br>loose particles.<br><br>In this batch there are also 3 tapes in bad condition with heavy deposit <br>of fungus and mold on tape where the windows are. How should I go about <br>getting these clean?<br><br>And last, there are two memorex tapes, when labeled Chroma 90. What do <br>we know about them? Any thing to look out for?<br>Cheers<br>Shai<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:53:41 -0400<br>From: "C. Park Seward" <park@videopark.com><br>To: Quad List <quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com><br>Subject: Re: [QuadList] Scotch 400<br>Message-ID: <35B75B45-1F69-431E-ADF9-2FE8EF00D9FD@videopark.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br><br><br>Best,<br>Park<br><br>Sent from my iPhone<br>818-535-2747 cell<br>(541) 476-6657 hm<br>2" and 1" video transfers<br><br>On Aug 30, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Shai Drori <srdbx@netvision.net.il> wrote:<br><br>> <br>> Hi All<br>> I am digitizing an archive now that has among other media 28 reels of scotch 400. When I checked them visually for sap or SSS or other problems they actually looked fine. Could use a cleaning before playing but they actually looked good. Is that possible? I was always under the impression that all these are disasters.<br>> With this in mind I would like to know what you think about the follow work flow for preparing them for transfer.<br>> 1. clean and vacuum off dust.<br>> 2. remove flanges and clean them.<br>> 3. remove foam from top flange, even if it's in good shape and clean flange from residue.<br>> 4. screw flanges back into place.<br>> 5. run tapes forward and back while cleaning tape surface from dirt and loose particles.<br>> <br>> In this batch there are also 3 tapes in bad condition with heavy deposit of fungus and mold on tape where the windows are. How should I go about getting these clean?<br>> <br>> And last, there are two memorex tapes, when labeled Chroma 90. What do we know about them? Any thing to look out for?<br>> Cheers<br>> Shai<br>> <br>> ______________________________________________<br>> Please trim posts to relevant info when replying.<br>> <br>> Change subject to reflect thread direction. Thanks.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> <br>> Send QuadList list posts to QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com<br>> Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:<br>> http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com<br>> <br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:58:14 -0400<br>From: "C. Park Seward" <park@videopark.com><br>To: Quad List <quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com><br>Subject: Re: [QuadList] Scotch 400<br>Message-ID: <D68538D7-D1C0-44DC-BFE1-9A658FA26AE9@videopark.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br>Shai<br><br>The 400 3M tapes I have in house are all sticky. But baking has saved them. <br><br>Not all the foam was bad. The story is another company supplied the glue that was bad. I'm not sure I believe that. Selling glue to 3M?<br><br>Best,<br>Park<br><br>Sent from my iPhone<br>818-535-2747 cell<br>(541) 476-6657 hm<br>2" and 1" video transfers<br><br>On Aug 30, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Shai Drori <srdbx@netvision.net.il> wrote:<br><br>> <br>> Hi All<br>> I am digitizing an archive now that has among other media 28 reels of scotch 400. When I checked them visually for sap or SSS or other problems they actually looked fine. Could use a cleaning before playing but they actually looked good. Is that possible? I was always under the impression that all these are disasters.<br>> With this in mind I would like to know what you think about the follow work flow for preparing them for transfer.<br>> 1. clean and vacuum off dust.<br>> 2. remove flanges and clean them.<br>> 3. remove foam from top flange, even if it's in good shape and clean flange from residue.<br>> 4. screw flanges back into place.<br>> 5. run tapes forward and back while cleaning tape surface from dirt and loose particles.<br>> <br>> In this batch there are also 3 tapes in bad condition with heavy deposit of fungus and mold on tape where the windows are. How should I go about getting these clean?<br>> <br>> And last, there are two memorex tapes, when labeled Chroma 90. What do we know about them? Any thing to look out for?<br>> Cheers<br>> Shai<br>> <br>> ______________________________________________<br>> Please trim posts to relevant info when replying.<br>> <br>> Change subject to reflect thread direction. Thanks.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> <br>> Send QuadList list posts to QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com<br>> Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:<br>> http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com<br>> <br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:24:13 -0400<br>From: "Don Norwood" <dwnorwood@embarqmail.com><br>To: "Quad List" <quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com><br>Subject: Re: [QuadList] Scotch 400<br>Message-ID: <E207F4FFDF144E79AE84736122B6B279@dcidell2v2><br>Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";<br> reply-type=response<br><br>Shai:<br><br>I have had 400 tape that was just fine and played perfectly as is. I've <br>also had the worst SSS problems with 400 than with any other tape. <br>Generally, it seems to have some degree of SSS more often than not, but as <br>Park points out, baking has always worked on 400.<br><br>If you remove the foam from the flange, the reel is no longer dimensionally <br>correct. You can replace the flange with a flat flange for the transfer <br>process.<br><br>For reels with fungus, I use a company that specializes in the removal of <br>that sort of contamination.<br><br>The Chroma 90 that I've seen has not exhibited any unusual problems.<br><br>Don Norwood<br>Digitrak Communications, Inc.<br>www.digitrakcom.com <br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Send QuadList list posts to QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com<br>Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:<br>http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com<br><br>End of QuadList Digest, Vol 50, Issue 47<br>****************************************<br><span><br><br>-- <br><span name="x"></span><b><font face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Patrick McGowan</font><br></b>Engineer-In-Charge | NEP NCP<br>C: 602-690-4410<br><font color="#3366FF">pmcgowan@ncpvideo.com<br>www.nepinc.com</font><br><br><b>Superior Service & Lasting Relationships<br></b>Integrity | One Team | Innovative | Passion<br><br><font size="2">CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE & DISCLAIMER<br>This e-mail may contain confidential, proprietary, or privileged information. 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