[QuadList] QuadList Digest, Vol 19, Issue 53

[Dennis Degan]

		On Jan 28, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Doug Bingley wrote:

 > As I mentioned in an earlier post, our older machines did not have 
Editec although they used electronic editing. The electronic editor had 
the nomenclature PP which we human editors said stood for "Push and 
Pray." The machine did not go into full edit until about 3/4 of a 
second after hitting record and play, so you had to anticipate the edit 
point.

		I state:

	The very first electronic edit I ever performed was "Punch & Pray" in 
1974 on a TR-70b in Columbus, GA (I still have a copy of the tape).  
The delay of manual editing was maddening.  It's amazing how far we've 
come from those days.  The delay was of course a necessary circumstance 
caused by the distance between the erase head and the video heads, a 
distance of 15 video frames on Ampex VTRs and 18 frames on RCA machines 
(in NTSC).

			Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
	  					NBC Today Show, New York