[QuadList] Electronic Editing Notes

[C. Park Seward]

And of course it took a brave soul to do a pre-read edit! I made a lot of safety dubs when pre-reading.

Best,
Park

C. Park Seward
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On Jan 29, 2010, at 7:13 AM, Guy Spiller wrote:

> 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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