[QuadList] Question of the week

[David Crosthwait]

So RCA got EECO involved for the AE600? Interesting. 

> Much faster at cueing and winding (and also shooting tape across the room). I would bet that no photos exist of this nor an artist rendition (wish there was). Let me guess that the reels servos took off in opposite directions (could be this coming weekends quiz?).

David






On Mar 7, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Gary Adams wrote:

> 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).
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> 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. 
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> 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. 
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> Gary
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> RCA AE 6000 "Automatic Computerized Editing"  devise.
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