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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">An editor back then had to have some engineering background to get through a session. Our classification at the network was "engineer" although exact job functions varied. If you are in a 2" edit bay, usually with an assist editor (also an engineer), you had to decipher each and every technical issue immediately, unless it was a maintenance problem. "Was this a bad edit because of button pushing or is the machine in trouble?". One way to get engineering maintenance on your bad side was to call them in from the shop only to find out you personally made an operational error. </font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'd say my concentration was split 50/50 between creative input and engineering issues on each 2" edit session. 1" type C lessened that to perhaps 75/25.</font></div>
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From: Guy Spiller <quadruplex@verizon.net><br>
To: Quad List <quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com><br>
Sent: Fri, Jan 29, 2010 7:13 am<br>
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Electronic Editing Notes<br>
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But, somehow, it created more of a sense of accomplishment back
then...at least for me. Now, it's just too easy. <br>
Ever try to explain to the current generation all the trouble we had to
go to to avoid a "bad edit"? Such things as tonewheel(tach) phase,
capstan speed, erase timing....even color framing? <br>
I've had a couple of informal demonstrations here of the process of
actually editing on a quad, "push and pray" style, for some of the
twenty-something tv folks in town that I work with occasionally. Some of
the looks and the questions I get are pretty funny. They had trouble
before imagining a "bad edit" technically.....only creatively. At least
now, I think they might have some sense of what we went through, and I
suspect they were relieved to go back to their Betacam and computer stuff. <br>
And now with non-linear editing, "insert" and "assemble" are vanishing
from the lexicon too. I can't imagine trying to explain that concept in
ten years. <br>
What fond memories are current editors going to remember in their old
age....will they be sitting around reminiscing about the "good old days"
with Final Cut Pro 5.0? I wonder! <br>
Oh well, it sure was fun. I'm thankful every day to have been involved
back then. <br>
Guy <br>
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Ted Langdell wrote: <br>
> On Jan 29, 2010, at 9:07 AM, <a href="mailto:Chill315@aol.com">Chill315@aol.com</a>
> <<a href="mailto:Chill315@aol.com?">mailto:Chill315@aol.com</a>> wrote: <br>
> <br>
>> I hope that we all look back and thank our lucky stars for being
>> able to see the great leaps that were made. <br>
>>
>> Chris Hill <br>
> <br>
> Amen to that.
> <br>
> And the laptop on which I'm writing this can also do what it used to
> take a $ 1million+ edit suite to create for the cost of the laptop,
> editing software and hard drive storage. Under $3K depending on RAM
> and HDD space. <br>
> <br>
> Ted Langdell <br>
> Secretary <br>
> <br>
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