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<DIV><FONT size=4>Years before TBC's hit the ground running, WLTV in Miami
would</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>feed the video from their Akai 1/2" R-R B&W
portable videotape</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>machine into their "Winchester Cathedral Video Converter" to
air.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>The Converter: A B&W monitor, in a black box with a large
viewing hood,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>with just enough of an opening for a GE PE-250
to take the </FONT><FONT size=4>shot!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Crude but cheap, and the "first" ENG tape on the air in
Miami!! </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Don Murray</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Retired from 40 years in Miami Television</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>35+ years at WTVJ NBC O&O</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 7/25/2009 7:20:34 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
ted@quadvideotapegroup.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV>On Jul 12, 2009, at 8:37 PM, <A title=mailto:Chill315@aol.com
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">There is the old favorite TBC that is all
forgiving and allows for unique control. It is the most beautiful
system ever devised. Requires the use of two pieces of equipment and
some care.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">Take an under scanned black and white monitor
and shoot it with a camera. Then you have all sorts of control via
knobs on the monitor and the camera. The monitor acts as a beautiful
sponge. If you have a fast time constant in the monitor, then you do
not see any flagging. Use a dark room to get rid of reflections.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">I have done that in the past and it
works. </DIV>
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<DIV>Same idea behind the slow-scan to NTSC frame rate converter for the moon
shots, with an added disc recorder to repeat frames as needed.</DIV>
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<DIV>I used the same "shoot a monitor" technique when working in a 3/4" suite
that lacked a second TBC for A-B roll.</DIV>
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<DIV>We had some color composite Commodore computer monitors that we used for
general purposes around the facility. No underscan, but had good pictures for
video or computer signals.</DIV>
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<DIV>I put one of those in a dark room, put tape over the camera tally light
and with bars on the screen adjusted framing, zoom and focus as needed to get
the image size needed with minimum Moiré. </DIV>
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<DIV>With a properly chipped 3-Saticon camera, I found that I usually needed
to reduce the brightness, contrast and saturation on the monitor but got a
very nice picture I could shade from the CCU if needed. </DIV>
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<DIV>Like horror movie SFX, it worked well if you didn't keep full-screen
stuff up longer than needed to get through the transition and to the next cut.
Picture-in-picture shots worked better, and I'd put the monitor in a box
wipe to eliminate any curved edges of the monitor.</DIV>
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<DIV>Ah, the olden days when chewing gum and bailing wire were still
useable.</DIV>
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<DIV>Ted</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" size=3
face=Helvetica>Ted Langdell</FONT></DIV>
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