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Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation media WAS: Cataloguing still :-)
Thanks Tom. It was cool for me - I was hired to bring in 16 tracks of
Protools, and they used their old cassette decks for backup (never
needed the backups for mine, which did not crash during three long
days! Dedicated, of course, as i don't do anything visual except look
at Protools. They have their own MOTU system but couldn't get it to
work, I refused to gloat, just went to work with my G4 Powerbook.
Mostly they use Marantz flash recorders, but do the recording on MP3 as
he thinks it is good enough. But the savings in production time is
extreme by using digital files rather than reatime transfer from
cassettes! Nobody I know sells cassette copies anymore (but you?).
This was a software conference so they distribute by downloadble MP3
files, and some of them get bundled with the powerpoints - in post, of
course.
FYI, my partner Coleen is a professionla transcriber, and I have set
her up with audio CD and DVD playback with a footpedal control, to
augment her cassette and microcassette systems. It is a great use for
old inexpensive iMacs! She types on one and plays audio on the other,
for a total hardware cost of $400...
Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
On Sep 3, 2006, at 2:52 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
There was a program, simple one, called something like MP3Edit, that
did exactly what you want, in the MP3 domain. At least I'm pretty sure
of that. If it was transcoding and then re-squishing, it didn't leave
any artifacts when you'd do something like cut the tails and heads on
a file.
Conferences -- we still record ours on cassettes, nowadays having to
pay $150 extra for a cassette machine in the rack. The audio guys are
always offering to record on laptop. I always say, first where's the
redundent laptop since it's as good as gold that it will crash at
least once during the day? And, where's the dedicated recorder laptop
since no laptop I've ever worked on can reliably run Powerpoint
(usually with embedded effects, video or audio) and record a long WAV
file. They quickly retreat and say, yeah, cassette's better for you.
Our transcriber still works only with cassettes anyway. Lou, you
should tell your guy to spring for $400 for an M-Audio flash recorder.
That's plenty of fidelity for voices and will do WAV. You can fit
plenty of 22K/16-bit wave (again, plenty for voices) on a 4 gig CF
card.