{"id":11416,"date":"2020-11-19T14:51:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T14:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?page_id=11416"},"modified":"2020-11-19T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T14:51:20","slug":"pushing-the-wrong-buttons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/pushing-the-wrong-buttons\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing the Wrong Buttons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pat Heigham<\/strong><\/h3>\nIt\u2019s time for me to \u2018fess up to some horrid mistakes!\n

\nI\u2019ve posted a story about causing the wiping of part of Katarina Witt addressing the East German Parliament \u2013 not altogether all my fault, as I\u2019d forgotten that the camera could initiate record on the separate BVU recorder.\n

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Blunder #1.\nThe full-track TR90s had the record interlock button close to the main output fader, on the panel below the deck. Reaching down for the fader, I pushed the record button while pressing \u2018play\u2019. Some nifty work involved dubbing from the 7 \u00bd ips safety copy up to 15 ips, and magic-ing with razor blade and splicing tape to mend the erased bit.\n

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Blunder #2.\nThis in the Film Industry, on my second feature. The Nagra III had two buttons on the front, one was the A\/B (input\/off-tape) one, the other injected tone. Halfway through a take, I pushed a button to check the off-tape mode. Arrrggghh! Wrong one! Burst of tone for a second. This, of course turned out to be the chosen print take, and on two cameras, so I cringed twice while seeing rushes.\n

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Blunder #3. \nFollowing Muhammad Ali, who was attending a school to present a birthday cake \u2013 lots of noise from excited kids as we entered the hall. Later, the editor rang me at home, asking:\u201d Where\u2019s slate 7, Pat?\u201d I thought \u2013 between 6 and 8? He sent me the tape, and indeed it was missing. What had happened, was…. the Nagra 4 has a multiposition function rotary switch.\n

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Record mode:<\/td>\n1<\/td><\/tr>\n
Off<\/td>\n2<\/td><\/tr>\n
Standby, inputs live but tape stationary<\/td>\n3<\/td><\/tr>\n
Tape rolling, machine recording<\/td>\n4<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

\nThere was so much noise that the leakage round my cans led me to think that it was already in Standby, so I went one click, not looking at the machine to see if the spools were actually going round \u2013 we were closely following Ali, so had to look where we were going.\n

\nI\u2019m sure I\u2019ve got others but those above are ones I would like to forget!\n

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