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<br><div><div>On May 16, 2014, at 12:34 PM, Steve White wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br>
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was a totally different format.<br>
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You'll notice the Ampex used a moving pinch roller path with
resulting omega wrap around the drum, while the IVC used a fixed
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<div style="font-size: small; ">ok! then ivc is not type A</div>
<div style="font-size: small; ">it is its own format huh?</div>
<div style="font-size: small; ">(In at case I hope it was really done on somethin else
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<div style="font-size: small; ">In a message dated 5/16/2014 12:25:34 P.M. Mountain
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<div>Any tape made on an IVC 1" machine will definitely
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completely different format, head drum size, #heads,
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<div style="font-size: 10pt; ">Don - Well if we never getting it
working that is ok too as we have an Ampex
camera that is a nice match for it... the
TelePrompTer 1 inch tape was supposedly
done on a IVC so we will try that. </div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt; ">If it works that is great as we have no
budget for outside services to convert it!
So fingers are crossed! </div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt; ">In a message dated 5/16/2014 11:41:05
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the mid 60's, and a lot has changed
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><br></font></div></font></blockquote></div></font></blockquote></div></blockquote></div>We regularly do type A transfers. We have VR-7800, VPR-7900 and VPR-1's in their original A format.<div><br></div><div>There never is a lack of surprises with the A format and pre-A format recordings. </div><div><br></div><div>One A format issue is the deterioration of the tape stock. Other problem issues usually point to the lack of basic good engineering standards when the recording was made i.e. the operator did not know what he/she was doing.</div><div><br></div><div>According to Jim Wheeler, the first use of the AST was the 7800 or 7900 machine although it may have been a prototype only.</div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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 style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Best Regards,<br><br>David Crosthwait<br>DC Video<br><i>Transferring NTSC, PAL & SECAM quad and helical source tapes!</i><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><a href="mailto:david@dcvideo.com">david@dcvideo.com</a><br><a href="http://www.dcvideo.com/">www.dcvideo.com</a><br><br>Follow DC Video on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dcvideo">https://www.facebook.com/dcvideo</a><br>Follow DC Video on YouTube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/dcvideoonline">http://www.youtube.com/user/dcvideoonline</a></font><br><br></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></div></div></body></html>