Instructional Video Production

Instructional Video Production 4(1+3)

Lesson 12: Production

Video Tapes

• Always carry video tapes in their cases
• Protect video tapes from excessive heat and humidity, or cold, dust, smoke, and dirt
• Always store tapes vertically like books on a rack.
• Record colour bars for 20 seconds and blank (black) signal for 10 seconds on every fresh tape.
• Avoid time code breaks on video tape like plague. They can prove to be very taxing during editing.
• Once a tape is exhausted, label the tape and give it a number. For example, the first tape could be labelled- TAPE 01, Health Minister Rosaiah's interview, cutaways, 29 April 2006.
• Once a tape is exhausted, move the recording tab to 'safe' mode to avoid accidental recording.