On Tue, 13 May 2003 05:01:30 GMT, "Jim Harvey" <jharvey3@optonlin3e.net> wrote:

>Here's a nasty little story for all you kiddies. Play this one back the next

>time you're on a tight deadline and a single camera shoot.

[......]

>Please tell me that I'm not the only person that this has happend to. I have

>shot thousand and thousands of hours of video and I don't ever recall having

>2 tapes in a row with bad audio tracks on them. Then again, I never had a

>shoot where I couldn't review at some point. (the difference between planned

>and unplanned shooting I guess).

>

>Thanks for the listen guys.

OUCH!!!

Th' nasty gremlins, again - the ones who wait as you prepare

all gear carefully, then hit you where you least expect it!

Ugh!!! (I've taken lately to running a FireWire-connected

small 1-chipper Mini-DV camera as backup deck [and also

"portable" viewfinder] for the main camera in 1-camera

shoots, but, as another pointed out, this doesn't protect

you from having two bad tapes from the same batch...)

I guess I would hand the client a copy of your story, which

makes it quite clear that the fault was not yours, and hope

for the best...

Good luck!