[QuadList] What Does E-E mean?

[Dennis Degan]

		On Jan 5, 2015, at 11:49 AM, David Crosthwait wrote:

> E-E means "Electronically Edited" i.e. Editec as opposed to physically spliced.

		I add:

	It also can mean “Electronics-to-Electronics”, meaning that the video signal follows through the VTR’s electronics only; and is not a signal from a videotape.  This is usually what’s seen when a VTR is stopped.  The VTR’s input video is connected straight through all of the signal electronics (modulator to demodulator) to the output of the machine.  It can be thought of as a ‘continuity check’ for the signal system of the VTR.

		Also, Steve Greene wrote:

> I've seen tapes labeled this in various political campaign collections. My guess at a definition: dubs created from the FM-output to video-in between two quads. Probably identical model machines both very well maintained and calibrated.
> Is this a correct definition?

		I answer:

	The term ‘E-E Master’ does NOT refer to a dub.  It is a master tape.
	What you are referencing is an ‘FM dub’ or ‘RF dub’.  Though it was not commonly done, it was possible to take the RF output from a quad VTR and use it as the input to another similar VTR in order to make a copy of the tape, with the supposed benefit of bypassing a lot of signal processing.  Despite the fact that it worked, the process was not popular for a number of reasons, the main one of which was that there was little to be gained once high-band recording was introduced in 1964.

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


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