OT: just for those intersted about analog tape

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:25:00AM -0600, Bill Akers wrote:
> > I remember watching an engineer SPLICE video tape using Magnasee
> > to find the sync tracks before you could edit video electronically.
> > 
> > If you got the wrong sync pulse the picture would slip down 1/2
> > frame. 
> 
> What??? Please explain what this does!!! My experience says it would 
> just lose a part of one frame and all subsequent frames would be right 
> back in proper order.

Nope.  A frame of video took *4* sweeps to record on the tape.  If you
miscounted, your sync would skip.

Cheers,
-- jra
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