<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><b>RCA Time Code Editor with programmer and nixie tube time code display. (RCA Photo)</b></div><div><br></div><div>Its first work was the Dean Martin and Red Skelton shows. </div><div><br></div></blockquote><b>Editing the Dean Martin Show with the RCA Time Code Editor:</b><br><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>As a standard operating procedure, "Time of Day" time code was fed to the cue track all machines in the Burbank plant, allowing operators—and editors who often are the record engineers on shows like Dean Martin— to easily log takes as they were recorded, using clock time.</div><div><br></div><div>On the Martin show, two reels were generated during the Saturday evening sessions: A live-switched reel and an ISO of a single camera usually used for close ups.</div><div><br></div>During the Monday/Tuesday edit sessions, shows were assembled on one-hour reels previously recorded with time code, video black and control track. A 15Hz frame pulse was added to the control track to help make color framing more accurate during editing, since the TR-70's didn't have a color framing detector.<div><br></div><div>The editor operated the record VTR on which the show was assembled, along with the switcher. His assistant ran the playback VTR, its programmer and the slo-mo disc recorder when used.</div><div><br></div><div>If dissolves to other reels were needed a third VTR and assistant were assigned.</div><div><br></div><div>Contact closures at specified time codes rolled different video or audio equipment.</div><div><br></div><div>Credit rolls for the "Dean Martin" show used A and B reels built up checkerboard style using the slo-mo disc to pull stills from the show. A third playback VTR was used to roll the credits for keying over the A-B roll pictures. The theme song was laid down from an audio deck during the playback to the edited master. The use of time code significantly sped up the process for building the credits.</div><div><br></div><div>Audio sweetening was done after the master reel was assembled. </div><div><br></div><div>Mono audio and time code were transferred from the edited master to two tracks of a four-track audio recorder equipped with a capstan servo and sync track. The time code from the four-track audio recorder was fed back to the RCA Time Code Editor so its synchronizing feature would lock the VTR to the audio deck TC.</div><div><br></div><div>Sweetening added audience reaction and applause to smooth out transitions, along with equalization to match segment-to-segment sound and additional music. </div><div><br></div><div>The results were mixed during re-recording to the mono audio track on the edited master.</div><div><br></div></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>QuadList member and former NBC Editor David Crosthwait described working in one of the newer rooms in this January, 2010 message:</div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/pipermail/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com/2010-January/001917.html">http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/pipermail/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com/2010-January/001917.html</a></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So, there's a little bit of NBC Burbank Quad-related history. And now you know what I was editing all day :) </div><div><br></div><div>
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