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Michael, If you are serious about video, get a bar generator somewhere. Horita sells a combo bar/BB generator for around $290 and a full TSG unit for about $400, I think. ('Course you could spend thousands on them – but why?) Trying to shoot a chart onto tape for your studio standard is a way of balancing you studio to that tape, from that camera, on that day, in that lighting. Now, when you shoot tape with that camera, it would be a good idea to shoot the bars for a minute or more whenever you white balance or shoot a scene where the light changes alot. Then, assuming your studio is balanced to a standard signal, you tune the TBC on the palybakc of that tape to give you the bars back off tape at the levels and phase for the standard. Then if you combine that footage with stuff shot on another camera, whose playback is also tuned to the standard bars, then the viewer is unaware that two different sources were used. wmc – via Autopilot!