[MacDV] Re: Back UP storage options???

[Steven Rogers]

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 06:06 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote:

> Whatever happened to the old technique of recording black on a tape 
> before you used it? I know it sounds a little anachronistic in these 
> days of digital imaging (it was essential when editing analog), but it 
> still seems like it would solve the gapping time-code issue.

It doesn't, because the "blacked" time code is not synched with the 
material you record over it.  A gap is still a gap, whether there's 
noise or a different time code in it.

SR