Home Video Hints: Get Those Tapes in Shape
Limbering up your tapes by blacking, fast forwarding and pre-labeling them can save you headaches.No matter how casual you are about video, there's one place where you should be as meticulous as any pro tape management and preservation. For 20 years, proud grandpas and mothers of the bride have been saddened and appalled as irreplaceable video images faded into smudged ghosts and finally vanished. You can avoid that fate in today's digital world, but only if you prepare tapes to begin with, warehouse them with care, and copy them every few years or so.
We'll tell you how to do all that, and while we're on the subject, we'll also cover a simple procedure called "blacking the tape," which can reduce the tedious parts of video editing by 90 percent. Trust me, you'll like it. So, let's talk about getting tape ready before shooting and then archiving it afterwards. Finally, we'll explain what blacking the tape is, why you want to do it, and how to go abo…
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