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Post #519520

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captainsolo
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Humdinger Analysis Thread : Glitch, Cryptography or Steganography?
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4-Aug-2011, 5:33 PM

none said:

The individual who worked on the 2004 DVDs, his impression is it's a chunk of missing data.  Either in the digital file or a HDCam-SR submaster tape.  Not knowing what that format is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCAM  The format had an initial introduction in 1997 (Special Edition timeframe) and a SR version in 2003 (just before the DVDs)  this is a possibility for the loss of data.  Maybe the tape they used got a crinkle and the Humdinger came into being.  But if LFL did work 100% with harddrives then this theory is incorrect.

That would make perfect sense. Lowry doesn't work with tape now, but they may have used tape at some point in the workflow process back then as they weren't as high up as they are now. Or maybe there was some tape transfer at LFL since they must have bought all of the HDtapes in existence for shooting EP. II and III.

If the glitch was introduced in tape form then it would go onto the master stored digitally and that would be why it is still there.

I freaking hate those HD tapes. All of the pains of digital video tapes magnified x1000.