Fame: I’m going to make a very serious attempt to live forever, though no warranties are implied or given.
So tonight I dubbed Fame from VHS to DVD-R, and to be honest, this one’s gonna be a walk in the park. The master tape is in SP, so believe it or not, it’s considerably sharper despite still being VHS. Also, fortunately, the action seems to be confined to a single camera – I haven’t seen any switching-back-and-forth – which caused the huge number of problems with Up The Down Staircase – at all. This means you get a few more random camera movements – trying to follow people, the camera being bumped, and so on. But I think that’s the sort of thing you expect on something like this. There’s one tape edit toward the end that’s a bit messy, but it seems to be right in the middle of a fade-down on the stage and house lights, so that’s easy enough to skip. Sound quality’s pretty good for a camera that’s 1/3 of the length of the auditorium back from the stage.
This is another case where a bunch of synapses that haven’t fired in 20 years kicked in, and I remembered a heap of stuff. … Read more
