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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well, here's how it was done out in the boondocks.
This is a government production center where I started doing a lot of 1 frame
animation. The budget wouldn't support the newer AE version of editors, so I
built a hybrid timecode and thumbwheel switch comparator to cue the source
tapes and used TEP to cut them together. The closeup pix with TEP in the
lower right was taken before the cueing engine was relocated to the edit
console. The pix with the old guy is after. About 2 years after these pix
were taken, I built a simple Z-80 editor with a thumbwheel switch interface and
retired TEP. That lasted for 4 more years until we could afford a real
"store-bought" edit system.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I referred to it all as the automated
razorblade.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And, yes... the old guy in the pix was me. Now I
really feel my age.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anybody else have any pix of their TEPs?? Love to
see them.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>J. Mitch Hopper<BR>Custom Video Systems
Co.<BR>Rochester, IL<BR>217-498-8438<BR><A
href="mailto:id@brainmist.com">id@brainmist.com</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's been lovely but I have to scream
now.<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>