[QuadList] OB Film Vs. Studio Video

[Trevor Brown]

Martin was at Ampex when I did the VR7800 course I  think he signed my
certificate I will have to check

It was the old factory, well more like a packing case than a factory.

 

Did not know Southern had Union problems with the ACR25, We bought the TCR
100's at (Yorkshire Television) and all the manning deals were done before
it came through the door

The only problem was keeping it working, ended up putting the breaks
together and dubbing them to tape so you could have a few goes at it,

That's Automation for you, always takes more people than you thought it
would when you bought the kit

 

 

Trevor

UK Member

From: quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com
[mailto:quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com] On Behalf Of Bill Carpenter
Sent: 14 April 2010 19:35
To: Quad List
Subject: Re: [QuadList] OB Film Vs. Studio Video

 

 

Yes, Tony my post was in error, I did my own fact check and found out from
Martin Salter(ex-Ampex super engineer/marketer, who was based in our
Reading, England operation) and he cleared up my reference.

The ACR-25's which were covered up and not used for more than a year due to
union disputes, were at "Southern Television", the Independent License
holder for the Southern part of England.

Steve Turner did create a operating mode with an ACR-25 using the mode where
it would record a long event across as many cassettes as required. He would
put in cue points "on the fly" for each goal and penalty and then put them
all together as a recap as soon as the game was over.
He later used this same method to produce a very good daily wrap up of a
major multiple sport event in the far east.
This was a very early NLE on the fly application.
Bill

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From: Tony Quinn <tony at tqvideo.co.uk>
To: quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com
Sent: Tue, April 13, 2010 8:57:07 AM
Subject: Re: [QuadList] OB Film Vs. Studio Video

In message <182039.88978.qm at web30803.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, Bill Carpenter
<wcarpen107 at yahoo.com> writes
> Yes, you are right Chris, many times union conditions can overide
> technology. In 1974, when I had the AVR-2 @ the IBC show, the director
> we hired for the camera show, Steve Turner was leaving BBC, and he had
> used the ACR-25's, which were sitting idle due to union problems, as
> production editing sources.

This sounds as if it might be mistaken, as the BBC never owned an
ACR-25. A comprehensive list of real VT machines on strength is available
at http://www.vtoldboys.com/vtmcs.htm
-- "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a
million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire
works of Shakespeare.  Now, thanks to the Internet, we
know this is not true."  -- Robert Wilensky

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