[QuadList] Question of the week

[Gary Adams]

Very nice David. I never worked with one of these.  I may have seen one at
the factory but never trained up or heard of any installed.  Of course I
didn't get the "A" trips so there could have been a few around.  At Pacific
Video, we had 6 AE-600s using CMX editors.  The AE electronics (made by
EECO) did all the real synchronization and editing accepting commands from
the CMX.  We also had Recordec (sp?) R-mod reel servos instead of the stock
ones.  Much faster at cueing and winding (and also shooting tape across the
room). 

 

I actually came up with a modification that allowed the AE600 to fully
synchronize and edit with 3 second prerolls every time. It never failed
(well never say never).  The stock machines would fail sync too often and I
spent a lot of time figuring it out (while with RCA).  They never came out
with an official mod since it didn't come within, but I was often called to
provide the info.  

 

For simple machine to machine editing, you could just use the control panel
from any machine and tie up with 2 other quads.  Not suitable for post
production, but at TV stations manually assembling spots and making quick
fixes was pretty easy.  

 

Gary

 

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[mailto:quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com] On Behalf Of David
Crosthwait
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 10:37 AM
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The answer is the 

 

RCA AE 6000 "Automatic Computerized Editing"  devise.

 

 

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