Hiyas
I couldn't be bothered finding a tape forum as I read this one all the time and I'm sure that someone can give me an answer :-)
We ran out of 66 minute DVCPro stock the other day and I asked for some more. I got a call this morning from the guy picking up the stock from the local supplier. We have been using Panasonic AJ-P66MP stock for a couple of years now with no problem and that's what he was getting. But the supplier was trying to tell him that it was 25 MB/s only. He had rung me to check and I said they had their heads up their bums and the only difference was tape speed. I then did a rethink and wondered whether there might be a difference in oxide as well? I've recorded lots of stuff at 50MB/s (which we need to get 2 main audio and 2 M&E tracks) and had no complaints - transferred to DigiBeta plenny of times.
But I did notice our longer 90 minute tapes do have DVCPro50 written on them, which the 66 minute ones don't.
So - is there a difference?
Cheers
I couldn't be bothered finding a tape forum as I read this one all the time and I'm sure that someone can give me an answer :-)
We ran out of 66 minute DVCPro stock the other day and I asked for some more. I got a call this morning from the guy picking up the stock from the local supplier. We have been using Panasonic AJ-P66MP stock for a couple of years now with no problem and that's what he was getting. But the supplier was trying to tell him that it was 25 MB/s only. He had rung me to check and I said they had their heads up their bums and the only difference was tape speed. I then did a rethink and wondered whether there might be a difference in oxide as well? I've recorded lots of stuff at 50MB/s (which we need to get 2 main audio and 2 M&E tracks) and had no complaints - transferred to DigiBeta plenny of times.
But I did notice our longer 90 minute tapes do have DVCPro50 written on them, which the 66 minute ones don't.
So - is there a difference?
Cheers