[QuadList] Early CMX Documentation

[David C. Crosthwait]

Montage?


Quoting "C. Park Seward" <park at videopark.com>:

> Hi Bob,
>
> May I suggest, in order to do dissolves, you must have a TBC on your  
>  3/4" decks.
>
> The Editdroid used laser disks. There was another system that used   
> many VHS machines with redundant material on it so you could see   
> your edits without recording anything. That way it was easy to   
> change and ripple. No re-recording necessary. Can't remember the   
> name right now.
>
> Best,
> Park
>
> C. Park Seward
> Visit us: http://www.videopark.com
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 22, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Bob Campbell wrote:
>
>>
>> My first job in post production was editing commercial animatics   
>> for focus group testing at Optimus in Chicago in 1978 or so.
>> System included a small color camera we would use to shoot flat art  
>>  representing the different scenes in the commercial. The art drawn  
>>  art was amazing sometimes!
>> We would do pan, zooms etc to 3/4" Sony's for A and B rolls.
>> This was all controlled by a CMX 50 system that had no TBC's so   
>> when we did dissolves we had a 50/50 chance of not having a jump at  
>>  the match frame.  At some point I thought we had floppy's to save   
>> EDL's. That might have been the on-line rooms' CMX 340. Not sure.
>>
>> I later worked at One Pass in San Francisco at the time of the   
>> fire. Very interesting the way things melt!
>> I was doing telecine at that point, so I don't remember much about   
>> the CMX 600.
>> We had the AVR system to control the telecine and 1" vtr's at that   
>> point. Pre Davinci TLC's.
>> What a huge advantage to be able to make accurate insert edits in   
>> to 3/2 pull down masters and lay down film rolls to pre stripped   
>> tape with accurate/ repeatable time code.
>>
>> We did have a 1/2" VHS edit system that controlled a lot (12 I   
>> think) of machines for the tape version of random access.
>> I think this was an early Edit Droid? Watching all those VHS   
>> machines trying to cue was interesting.
>>
>> Bob Campbell
>> Colorist
>> SF
>>
>>
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