"Midnight on the Firing Line" What's the verdict?

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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E5l?= Are Nordal <a_blip at bigfoot.com>
Date: 28 Sep 2000 16:15:47 -0700
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Trent Piepho wrote:
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> I thought that B5 was shot on film, then converted to hi-res digital video on
> an Avid editing system.  It would seem that this digital 24fps master would be
> the "definitive source" of the finished episode. 

As I understand it, the AVID version is low quality and only used for
editing. The AVID then produces a data file containing all the
timecodes, which is sent to a film processing facility along with the
footage for automatic assembly.

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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 28 Sep 2000 17:29:11 -0700
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>As I understand it, the AVID version is low quality and only used for
>editing. The AVID then produces a data file containing all the
>timecodes, which is sent to a film processing facility along with the
>footage for automatic assembly.

That's correct.  My suspicion is that when they did the auto-assembly for the
PAL wide versions, the computer got a timecode wrong and glitched the "teacup"
sequence.

 jms

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