Berlin - It's A Matter of Time

Another video from "Hollywood Heartbeat". This one is from my tapes of Jan/Feb. 1981 and features a very young Terri Nunn and the band Berlin.

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Music

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• Berlin
• Terri Nunn
• It's A Matter of Time
• Hollywood Heartbeat

[DarrenGlen]

DAve can you post what equipment you used to transfer this from VHS. 9600 JVC with TBC and video NR perhaps? theres no color flicker , i assume you used a TBC or smoothing filter of some kind. And what capture gear...Canopus? its very good, no dropped frames. Out with the details !

Cheers!

[morrisonAV]

@DarrenGlen Okay Darren....you asked. They were recorded OTA (over the air) way back before my neighborhood had cable. They were recorded on a 4-head Panasonic (top of the line in 1980) at SP (2-hour) speed for maximum quality. The tapes were also top of the line. Transfers were done on a Panasonic AG-1980 with TBC. They were captured into Final Cut Pro via a Matrox MXO2 in DVCPRO codec. They didn't need much work. Wish I had the opening few seconds....I hate that "crash edit" at the opening.

[cirrusflier5]

GREAT job - really VHS? Terri has amazing stage presence for her age - I love the way she cuts back with her eyes at the camera - a natural performer

[morrisonAV]

@cirrusflier5

I'm SO glad I taped most everything in the SP mode back then and not in SLP (6 hour mode) as those tapes are very unstable now.

[douglas787]

I never heard this track before, it's not on the Pleasure Victim Album. Terri looks hot as hell in this video. Excellent video and audio quality, can't be vhs.

[morrisonAV]

@douglas787

Yep, and 30-year-old VHS at that!! Glad you liked it. I just sent a copy of the video to the band. Hope Terri likes it!!

[24per24]

It was soo amazing...!!

She was and still gorgeous...

I LOVE this early sound of Berlin

[ancele007]

Crawford's hair is epic.

[gluserty]

@DarrenGlen Teri Nunn was so cool for herself in that time.

[TheEarlymtv]

is this traci lords?

[deckard97]

@douglas787 Matter of time is on their Greatest Hits album,released Dec 1988. still trying to get my hands on a copy of Information

[gluserty]

Terri Nunn wasn't the usual teenager; it's awesome that her voice got heard (Like her televisioin work too).

[Jarren202]

@HarryPotter87 Yes. She was a teenager when she started with Berlin, and I think this video shows that exact year (1979).

[HarryPotter87]

1:45 I looove Terri's eerie pose

[HarryPotter87]

@Jarren202 That would make her 17/18 when this video was made.

[dion1959]

Hawt!



[Jarren202]

@topgato66 Terri still tours with a new band lineup, they're pretty tight!

[topgato66]

One of the hottest singers—then and now. Terri Nunn and the band was West-Coast New Wave (a la X, Missing Persons, etc.) a sadly missing element in music today. Forever underrated was the band Berlin. Would live to see the classic line-up again on tour or with new music.