[QuadList] T.E.P. rememberances

[Dennis Degan]

		On Feb 5, 2013, at 6:45 PM, J. Mitch Hopper wrote:

> Well, here's how it was done out in the boondocks. This is a  
> government production center where I started doing a lot of 1 frame  
> animation. The budget wouldn't support the newer AE version of  
> editors, so I built a hybrid timecode and thumbwheel switch  
> comparator to cue the source tapes and used TEP to cut them  
> together.  The closeup pix with TEP in the lower right was taken  
> before the cueing engine was relocated to the edit console. The pix  
> with the old guy is after.  About 2 years after these pix were  
> taken, I built a simple Z-80 editor with a thumbwheel switch  
> interface and retired TEP.  That lasted for 4 more years until we  
> could afford a real "store-bought" edit system.
> I referred to it all as the automated razorblade.
> And, yes... the old guy in the pix was me. Now I really feel my age.


		I query:

	So what are you trying to say, Mitch?  That everything in that  
picture is obsolete?    ;)

			Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
					     NBC Today Show, New York



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