[QuadList] Alvy Ray Smith

[Dave Sieg]

Park:
Do you know if the quad was recorded at Image West?
I had heard many of the scanimate elements were done there.
That would have been the year before I started working there.
We had 3 IVC9000's and a VR1200.
Dave

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:28 AM, C. Park Seward <park at videopark.com> wrote:

> Hi Scott,
>
> The restoration is complete but thanks for the kind offer. Yes, the
> YouTube was from 3/4" and Alvy didn't have a better format copy so that's
> why he asked me to transfer the Quad.
>
> Best,
> Park
>
> C. Park Seward
> Cell: 818-535-2747
> Home: 541-476-6657
> 2" Quad and 1" "C" transfers
> The Transfer Lab at Video Park
> Visit us: http://www.videopark.com
>
>
>
> On Nov 23, 2011, at 9:55 PM, Scott Thomas wrote:
>
> > That's fascinating Park! I remember seeing parts of Sunstone back in the
> early 80's on PBS's Nova and probably on USA's Night Flight too.
> > I recently watched it on YouTube in it's entirety. Don't know where the
> transfer was from.
> >
> > I would make an offer to attempt some restoration if you would like or
> Alvy would allow.
> > I don't know what would be required, but it would be a great honor If I
> could help.
> >
> > Scott Thomas
> >
> > On Nov 23, 2011, at 6:57 PM, C. Park Seward wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Quad Guys,
> >>
> >> Thought you might be interested on a recent transfer I did for the
> famous Alvy Ray Smith.
> >>
> >> http://alvyray.com/Bio/BioMain.htm
> >>
> >> You may have heard of LucasFilm, Pixar, Ampex, Apple, Xerox PARC, and
> many more.
> >>
> >> He had an experimental project on Quad called "Sunstone" made in 1979
> that needed to be transferred. The tape had as lot of big hits but I edited
> around the big ones.
> >>
> >> That brings the question about the difference between "transfer" and
> "restoration".  When I was at The Post Group, one project I worked on was
> the restoration of many Stephen Cannell's TV shows. The tape was viewed and
> notes made of any deficiencies. The tape was then digitized and all the
> problems painted out. The output was again looked at frame by frame to make
> sure the artist got all the hits. Sometimes it went back into the Flame to
> do more restoration.
> >>
> >> So I made a transfer, as requested by the client. After getting the
> DVD, Alvy noticed some minor dropouts and hits. He said his wife didn't see
> anything but he noticed them. So I made a "restoration version" by editing
> out the big errors and doing other corrections to the images. Since it is
> only a three minute piece it didn't take too long.
> >>
> >> The result?
> >>
> >> "I received the new DVDs today and just looked at them. Sunstone lives
> again!
> >> Excellent job. "
> >>
> >> Nice to be complimented by a Master.
> >>
> >> Alvy said they used six IVC 9000s to do the edit, under computer
> control. This in the late 70s! And he said the six-sided cube took 56 hours
> to render!
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Park
> >>
> >> C. Park Seward
> >> Cell: 818-535-2747
> >> Home: 541-476-6657
> >> 2" Quad and 1" "C" transfers
> >> The Transfer Lab at Video Park
> >> Visit us: http://www.videopark.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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