<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Let the animation competition begin, Ampex style!</font><div><br></div><div><img height="819" width="1902" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="b930b995-7902-4c33-af93-d676d8b81eb3" src="cid:1D7DE4C7-F68E-431E-AB74-D81E53C552A8"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br>Regards,<br><br>David Crosthwait<br>DC Video<br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><a href="mailto:david@dcvideo.com">david@dcvideo.com</a><br>www.dcvideo.com<br><br>Follow DC Video on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcvideo<br></font><br><br></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span>
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<br><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Feb 19, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Dave Sieg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">I kind of cheated,</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">I used a pre-striped tape and kept the original control track.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">The servo continued as if it were in playback but the signal processing switched into record.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">The erase head came on about 500 ms before the recording started.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">I literally filed away the control track portion of the erase head and filled it in with epoxy.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">Then I glued on a separate erase head for the control track for normal use.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">I put a blip on the cue track where I wanted the edit.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">Then I out-boarded a cue-track read head near the erase head to start the whole process.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">In the time-lapse mode, the edit would erase the old blip and record a new one a frame later.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">As I recall the machine had to lock up color framed rolling into the edit or it would back up and try again.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">The whole time-lapse thing was a one-trick setup, but once started you could just sit back</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">and watch it roll back, roll in, edit, rinse, repeat.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">Hey, I was a college kid with a lot of free time on my hands, what can I say?<br>
<br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 3:20 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Chill315@aol.com">Chill315@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>So I have to ask, </div>
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<div>Were these color framed or not? </div>
<div>Did you use time code?</div>
<div>How do you know that it did not overwrite an earlier edit?</div>
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<div>In a message dated 2/19/2012 1:35:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
<a href="mailto:dave@zfx.com" target="_blank">dave@zfx.com</a> writes:</div>
<blockquote style="border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent" color="#000000" face="Arial">Obviously new high band head and preamp,
<div>playback eq's changed<br>
<div>mod/demod mods</div>
<div>and significant re-building the record amplifiers.</div>
<div>Theres a lot of non-obvious spectrum magic that takes place in those
record amps!<br>And I built an editor that could do single-frame edits for it
too!<br>Here is my test run, 1275 consecutive off-the-air single-frame edits
all perfect!<br>(Unfortunately this is from a 3/4" dub, I didnt' save the
original.)<br><a title="http://vimeo.com/5567846" href="http://vimeo.com/5567846" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/5567846</a> </div>
<div>Makes for a real time-capsule!<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 1:29 PM, David Crosthwait <span dir="ltr"><<a title="mailto:david@dcvideo.com" href="mailto:david@dcvideo.com" target="_blank">david@dcvideo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; ">Dave,</div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; ">Other
than the TBC, what was involved with the high-banding effort?
Mod/demod/filters? Updated head wheel/pre-amps? Was this a home-brew effort?
Regardless, hats off to you!</div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; ">David</div>
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