[QuadList] Guerilla splices (was RCA types) (Joe Owens) (Dennis Degan)

[Tony Quinn]

In message <98F56C388BB04EA5BA8D316C319FE5BE at homearizona>, Phillip G. 
Shaw <pshaw at sitestar.net> writes
>"contradict:
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>Well, you COULD edit the wrong field sequence . . . with dire results."
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>(Dennis Degan)
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>Dennis, I am surprised that an Editor, of that era, would think he was 
>controlling the precise physical point of the edit.(poke) The edit 
>systems before CMX, and after CMX, all functioned basically the same. 
>The CMX Basic Editing Course & the CMX Advanced Editing Course, that I 
>attended in 1979, did not reveal or invent anything new in editing, but 
>did provided the editor with house keeping tools & features.  The prior 
>Edit Systems, like the EDS time code system, had to have match frame 
>edit points entered into the EDL manually. I have/had zero creative 
>talent but I can drive the suckers. I am not suggesting it was or is 
>necessary for an editor to know all the nuts & bolts, but most editors 
>developed proven procedures that worked for them. My comments only 
>relate to professional videotape machines up to 1996.

I suspect that Denis is talking about cut edits, not electronic.
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