Editors---Diffrent tape brands at DVinfo.net

Clint Comer · February 14th, 2005, 07:34 PM

I was curious what other editors were doing as far as using multiple brands of tapes from job to job. I mean I know the rule, stick to one brand of tapes. But editors don;t really seem to have a choice. Do you just clean the heads every time you switch brands and that works? Or is there something else? Lucky for me the gig I'm working on at the moment gave me a seperate deck to capture from since they did not shoot on the same brand stock I normally use.

Richard Alvarez · February 14th, 2005, 07:42 PM

In my case, with a DSR11, I will run a tape head cleaner occasionally, because I get different stocks (wet and dry) through it. But because it is a deck, the transport mechanism is by nature, a bit hardier than a camera, so its not as likely to have the same clogging problems with transport and heads that you are going to find in a cam.

Darko Flajpan · February 15th, 2005, 08:14 AM

Never had a problem with deck. Worked a lot with DSR40 and tapes from 5 camera crews. Off course, they all had different brands of tape (Sony, Fuji, Maxell, JVC and Panasonic - hello mr. Murphy :-))...Never had to clean the heads. Like Richard said decks have more robust tape transports and heads.

Clint Comer · February 15th, 2005, 11:31 AM

Cool, well that was indeed my next question. Can you recomend a deck. Nothing too fansy.

Richard Alvarez · February 15th, 2005, 01:10 PM

I reccomend the DSR 11. About $1600. There are some other dv decks that play SVHS and MiniDV, around $800 I think, but they are hit and miss.

February 14th, 2005, 07:34 PM	#1
Clint Comer Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Surprise, AZ Posts: 144	Editors---Diffrent tape brands I was curious what other editors were doing as far as using multiple brands of tapes from job to job. I mean I know the rule, stick to one brand of tapes. But editors don;t really seem to have a choice. Do you just clean the heads every time you switch brands and that works? Or is there something else? Lucky for me the gig I'm working on at the moment gave me a seperate deck to capture from since they did not shoot on the same brand stock I normally use. __________________ Vlog On! http://youtube.com/clintus

February 15th, 2005, 08:14 AM	#3
Darko Flajpan Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Bjelovar, Croatia Posts: 153	Never had a problem with deck. Worked a lot with DSR40 and tapes from 5 camera crews. Off course, they all had different brands of tape (Sony, Fuji, Maxell, JVC and Panasonic - hello mr. Murphy :-))...Never had to clean the heads. Like Richard said decks have more robust tape transports and heads. __________________ XM2 Sony DXC637P BetaSP

February 15th, 2005, 11:31 AM	#4
Clint Comer Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Surprise, AZ Posts: 144	Cool, well that was indeed my next question. Can you recomend a deck. Nothing too fansy. __________________ Vlog On! http://youtube.com/clintus

February 14th, 2005, 07:42 PM	#2
Richard Alvarez Inner Circle Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: San Mateo, CA Posts: 3,840	In my case, with a DSR11, I will run a tape head cleaner occasionally, because I get different stocks (wet and dry) through it. But because it is a deck, the transport mechanism is by nature, a bit hardier than a camera, so its not as likely to have the same clogging problems with transport and heads that you are going to find in a cam.

February 15th, 2005, 01:10 PM	#5
Richard Alvarez Inner Circle Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: San Mateo, CA Posts: 3,840	I reccomend the DSR 11. About $1600. There are some other dv decks that play SVHS and MiniDV, around $800 I think, but they are hit and miss.