[QuadList] Vital... Gainesville

[Wayne Watson]

Ross also tended to use much less rack space than others. Ross is still going strong with good stuff. We have an SDI switcher, a router and a bunch of their DA's, conversion cards and that sort of thing. Of course nothing to tweak anymore and that is pretty hard on us old guys. We had one of their early switchers; it was tossed about ten years ago. Then I found out it was one of the very first (almost handmade I was told) and they had wished they could have it back. It just kills me to hear these stories and I will never toss anything else again.

Wayne Watson

From: quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com [mailto:quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com] On Behalf Of Gary Adams
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 8:05 AM
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We had two 508s and one 505.  They did work ok.  A small bit of tweaking from time to time.  Their main feature at the time was a sort of "non linear" approach to building effects.  You could add keys as you wished without backing into a corner which did save time.  Hard to describe, but in one "MLE", you could have several keys built in any order.   Took some getting used to but it did work.   With one bank, you could have title, chroma, wipe, and more all at one time and in any order.  The Ross guys were good to work with at the time.

As to why things were chosen.  The video tape package was all RCA. 6 TR-600, 4 TH200 (Sony 1"). The Switchers were Ross, Router was Image video, and sync and distribution was Leitch.  CMX Editing.  I would guess there was considerable cost difference between that and the more popular alternatives.  That said, we made it all work very well.

Gary

From: quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com [mailto:quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com] On Behalf Of David Crosthwait
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 9:22 PM
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We have a winner in the switcher guess: Wayne Watson responded privately:

"It is a Ross Video model 508 from about 1979."

Quad list member Gary Adams throttled back on his answer (thank you). I believe he worked at a facility (Pacific Video?) which had these switchers. Gary, why were they chosen over the GVG's, CDL, Ampex (or others) at the time? Did they work well?

David
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