[QuadList] Electronic Editing Notes

[Guy Spiller]

But, somehow, it created more of a sense of accomplishment back 
then...at least for me.  Now, it's just too easy.
Ever try to explain to the current generation all the trouble we had to 
go to to avoid a "bad edit"? Such things as tonewheel(tach) phase, 
capstan speed, erase timing....even color framing?
I've had a couple of informal demonstrations here of the process of 
actually editing on a quad,  "push and pray" style, for some of the 
twenty-something tv folks in town that I work with occasionally. Some of 
the looks and the questions I get are pretty funny.  They had trouble 
before imagining a "bad edit" technically.....only creatively.  At least 
now, I think they might have some sense of what we went through, and I 
suspect they were relieved to go back to their Betacam and computer stuff.
And now with non-linear editing, "insert" and "assemble" are vanishing 
from the lexicon too.  I can't imagine trying to explain that concept in 
ten years.
What fond memories are current editors going to remember in their old 
age....will they be sitting around reminiscing about the "good old days" 
with Final Cut Pro 5.0?  I wonder!
Oh well, it sure was fun.  I'm thankful every day to have been involved 
back then.
Guy

Ted Langdell wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Chill315 at aol.com 
> <mailto:Chill315 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>>  I hope that we all look back and thank our lucky stars for being 
>> able to see the great leaps that were made.
>>  
>> Chris Hill
>
> Amen to that.  
>
> And the laptop on which I'm writing this can also do what it used to 
> take a $ 1million+ edit suite to create for the cost of the laptop, 
> editing software and hard drive storage.  Under $3K depending on RAM 
> and HDD space.
>
> Ted Langdell
> Secretary
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