Video Tech Talk

Gah, I�m at home and horribly overwhelmed. I always think I�m amazingly great at video editing, but in reality I�m just a pathetic loser. Let me see if I can break down the problem so that the average person can understand:

Many of the people I�ve been sending my videos to have been complaining that they can�t hear sound on them. Well�

That�s because videotapes have two mono �soundtracks� (areas) where sound is recorded on. HI-FI VCRs are stereo VCRs that encode a stereo signal in the video signal.

When recording the master for my latest tape, and a few before that, I forgot to set the VCR up so that it records both on the stereo and the mono tracks.

So now, all the people with non-HI-FI VCR�s won�t be able to hear anything! Great! And I�ve spent hours trying to come up with a solution, but there is none!

So: Sorry all you wonderful friends of mine that want to see my college experiences! Find a HI-FI VCR (your parents probably have one), and you can listen to the sound! Otherwise, there is nothing I can really do.