State of the art editing

All,

This is so wonderful. I missed 2 inch editing by about a year thankfully.

This is great!

No thanks, I've already tried using a windows peecee

Well, I suddenly can not post a photo...

Ah memories... I still have some 2" tapes that I have edited in the the early 80's. We had Ampex and Bosch machines. On the earliest 2" machines you had to cut laterally, as in the video. Which was OK because it was just like cutting film. Later the video tracks were written transversally and auto-assembling was introduced (with a 12 second preroll for every edit hahaha). I still can hear the noise of the hydraulic pumps jamming the tape against the head drums every time you pressed Play. These things costed around 100.000 dollars/piece and the video quality was comparable with the video on a modern VHS tape (if anyone still knows what a VHS tape is)

Thanks for sharing this.

The oldest I worked with was U-matic, but when I was a kid my dad was an engineer with the BBC. His garage is still home to some nice 2" video reel converted hose holders, extension cable reels etc.

Useful things these days.

Cut my editing teeth on one of these bad boys!!!!




Does any one else remember using the IDOL timecode method where Betacam/SP
tapes were dubbed to VHS, edited onto VHS and run through a reader that created
a video only CMX EDL for online? All audio splits had to be hand written
and given to the online editor to type in manually.
Oh how we laughed at 4 in the morning!!

They still had quad machines when I started at the ABC but thankfully they didn't edit like that anymore.
I did some time on Steenbecks which put me in good stead for the rise of computer based non linear editing which I first started using in 1991.

Would have been much harder to comprehend if I'd just come straight from Tape to Tape editing.

Shot and cut my first film on 8mm, no sound, had to wind up the camera. Anyone who complains about DSLRs having an 11 minute limit, needs to try shooting with a 8 second limit, razor blades, and tape.




I say, if you can buy groceries, and sleep in a bed under a warm, dry roof, shut up and enjoy your life.