[QuadList] TEP - CAVEC and other stuff

[J. Mitch Hopper]

Hi David -
Well, I think that is the AE-400 - the next generation.
This is the original, and first, automatic editor RCA made. Didn't have a model number, just call TEP (Tape Editing Programmer with an MI number). No timecode, just a cue-tone benchmark on the cue track and a bunch of DTL counters and registers.  It would output a control at 8 seconds pre-edit. We used timecode to cue the source tapes but still had to lay in the in-edit point "by eye". TEP would allow a preview cycle and then had thumbwheels to add/subtract time to that point.

Like editing with axes and stone knives!

Now - tell me again why they were called "the good old days"?? ;-)

J. Mitch Hopper
Custom Video Systems Co.
Rochester, IL
217-498-8438
id at brainmist.com

It's been lovely but I have to scream now.

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  I edited a lot of shows with TEP in edit two and three at NBC Burbank. Long pre-rolls but I think it always color-framed correctly. Here is a picture of edit two with my friend Ken Baker:



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  On Feb 3, 2013, at 5:34 PM, J. Mitch Hopper wrote:




    If anyone is interested, I just posted some RCA TR-70 ops, T.E.P. and CAVEC maintenance manuals on ebay (321067223702).
    I may be one of the last who will admit to using TEP in daily production. Ours was even mixed with EECO timecode. The source machines would cue to time code -8 seconds and TEP would cut them together.  Ugh!
    My - how times have changed, eh?

    J. Mitch Hopper
    Custom Video Systems Co.
    Rochester, IL
    217-498-8438
    id at brainmist.com

    It's been lovely but I have to scream now.

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