[Frameworks] Broken mini DV

[Al Matthews]

One of the conservators here and I put our heads together for the following
list.

BAVC offers re-housing of tapes per
http://www.bavc.org/preservation/transfer

Also possibly of interest

George Blood http://www.georgeblood.com/ wrote a number of video
preservation specs for library of congress

http://ptlp.com/about.html

http://www.conservation-us.org/specialty-groups/electronic-media#.U-ujm2NSvJU


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Sean Weitzel <panaflex at gmail.com> wrote:

> Keep in mind that as others have stated you can transplant the tape into
> another shell, mini dv tape is extremely thin and fragile and great care
> must be taken when working with the tape itself.
> On Aug 13, 2014 9:52 AM, "Jon Behrens" <bolexman at msn.com> wrote:
>
>> No
>> You can take apart the tape case and remove the insides and install them
>> into a another mini DV tape case that does not have a cracked part.
>>
>> I did this once years ago with a Beta SP tape that had a similar issue
>>
>> Hope this helps
>> JB
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Aug 13, 2014, at 9:36 AM, "Gene Youngblood" <atopia at comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Friends,
>> I have discovered that a mini-DV of an interview we did with George
>> Kuchar is broken. The “door” on the cassette that opens so the tape can
>> thread is cracked and loose. I assume that means the tape is lost, right?
>>
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