{"id":172,"date":"2006-06-24T00:05:42","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T07:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2006-06-27T16:44:11","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T23:44:11","slug":"video-transfers-at-louie-central-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Video Transfers at Louie Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of transfers of old analog Hi8 videotapes, thanks to the generosity of my friend <strong>Aron Ranen <\/strong>of <a href=\"http:\/\/dvworkshops.com\/\"><strong>DVWorkshops.com<\/strong><\/a>.   I&#8217;ve shot a major portion of my documentary on Hi8 video with PCM audio, which isn&#8217;t exactly a common format.  Most of the Hi8 decks will only play back AFM audio, as does every Digital8 unit I&#8217;ve ever used.   I loved the crisp image I used to get from my Toshiba TSC-200, but the Hi8 format had some serious drawbacks.     <\/p>\n<p>When I first got involved with this LOUIE project, I borrowed an old 3-tube JVC camera with a 3\/4&#8243; pack from the local public access channel.   I figured a radio marathon with songwriter <strong>Richard Berry<\/strong> would certainly be newsworthy, right?   One little video project turned into a much bigger project, and I&#8217;ve used all sorts of video formats over the years- Betacam SP, 3\/4&#8243; SP, Hi8, SVHS, Digi-8, Mini DV, and DVCam.   If I had one regret about video formats, it would be that I shot way too much of my crucial interviews with Hi8, which turned out to be a really terrible format for drop-outs, but I am very fortunate that I was able to get interviews with all folks that I did.<\/p>\n<p>Again, my hat goes out to Aron this week for his video support services.   Aron was actually part of my production team when I did my very last video production with <strong>Richard Berry<\/strong>.   Richard did a reunion with <strong>the Pharaohs<\/strong> as part of a Doo Wop Show in Long Beach, California.   With Aron and my co-producer <strong>Jesse Block<\/strong>, we were able to get some great interviews and performances with the band.  I certainly had no idea that would be the very last time I would ever see Richard alive.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you interested in learning how to use the Final Cut Pro video editing system, Aron offers courses at <a href=\"http:\/\/dvworkshops.com\/\">DVWorkshops.com<\/a> in San Francisco.  Aron&#8217;s also directed some very entertaining films of his own, such as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonhoax.com\/\"><strong>Did We Go<\/strong><\/a>,&#8221; a documentary that questions whether man actually did walk on the moon.  If you sign up for any courses with Aron, be sure to mention that &#8220;LOUIE sent cha!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, you&#8217;ll have to excuse me, as I&#8217;ve got more video dubs to attend to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of transfers of old analog Hi8 videotapes, thanks to the generosity of my friend Aron Ranen of DVWorkshops.com. I&#8217;ve shot a major portion of my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,29,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ep-world","category-media-technology","category-production-at-louie-central","category-richard-berry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}