[QuadList] Early CMX Documentation

[Bob Campbell]

Montage it was!! 
Thanks David
On Feb 22, 2010, at 4:40 PM, David C. Crosthwait wrote:

> 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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