print to tape

i've spent quite a lot of time today with W(floopy)shaman's camera, last week's dawn project was the last one with the 1st tape and tomorrow i ride out with the 2nd tape, but i have no money and therefore i'm recycling an older tape,

so this afternoon i transferred 20 minutes of video onto my old computer, then onto my new computer, 4.25Gb of it... to make way for the new dawn project stuff, it was all stuff i'd video'd back in the easter holidays and some of it is gorgeous...

well, once i'd done that i realised i wanted to begin the process of getting from the 1st dawn project tape onto computer so i sent over the 1st 6 days of filming, 10 minutes of video, again onto the old computer before reaching the new computer, i've just edited together 2 seconds or so of the 1st 6 shots and it looks like this:



it struck me, coming back to tomorrows filming, that it would be useful to have last weeks 1st shot at the beginning of the tape, for when i'm setting up tomorrow's 1st shot, so i investigated the "print to tape" option... sadly to no avail... so now i'm going to have to take the old tape up there, set up the shot so it lines up and then put in the new tape... oh well... but hang on... you can't change a tape while it's on the tripod...

oh well, i guess i'll set the tripod up exactly then taking off the camera to change tapes won't push it off too much, if at all... except the small amount left right movement that is possible with that tripod clamp... hmmm...

oh well...