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

[Dennis Degan]

		I previously stated:

> Well, you COULD edit the wrong field sequence . . . with dire results."

		Phillip G. Shaw <pshaw at sitestar.net> wrote:

> 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.

		On Jan 13, 2009, at 2:56 PM, Tony Quinn wrote:

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

		I confirm:

	Tony is correct.  The original discussion was about physical tape 
splicing of 2-inch quad.  Apparently, Phillip missed that point.

			Dennis Degan, Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
	  				NBC Today Show, New York