24-06-2020, 10:05 AM
Or have two Ampexs.
I remember Time code editing but audio was still done with a blade, block and sticky tape. Then about 1977 I saw a machine to time code edit audio. The advantage was you still had the original to try different edits, otherwise you'd edit a copy and then copy the edit which was extra degradation.
I still have the MASSIVE ISA PC card for non-linear MJPEG editing. Getting a large enough disc for several versions of only 20 minutes in the mid 1990s cost more than the video editing card / software. It had SD RGB, PAL and VGA loop through. It used hardware overlay to put a 768 x 576 video in a window.
Then in the early days of Lyric FM (the RTE concept of BBC R3), which set up in Limerick, I got a tour of their studio. It was almost all digital with local servers and also access to all the digitally stored audio in Dublin. It may have been a mixing desk that was still analogue?
Last year as well as closing DAB, they were going to sell off Lyric or move it to Cork & Dublin and sell off the Guide. The plans seem to be in a state of flux and the proposed closing of Limerick studio seemed Political rather than financial. RTE didn't even respond to a UL proposal to host Lyric on their campus.
I remember being shown the special fluid, but even in the 1970s no-one spliced video tape except if it got damaged. Even then with 3/4" cassette it might have been split into two cases. Replacing video heads damaged by a splice wasn't cheap or fun.
I remember Time code editing but audio was still done with a blade, block and sticky tape. Then about 1977 I saw a machine to time code edit audio. The advantage was you still had the original to try different edits, otherwise you'd edit a copy and then copy the edit which was extra degradation.
I still have the MASSIVE ISA PC card for non-linear MJPEG editing. Getting a large enough disc for several versions of only 20 minutes in the mid 1990s cost more than the video editing card / software. It had SD RGB, PAL and VGA loop through. It used hardware overlay to put a 768 x 576 video in a window.
Then in the early days of Lyric FM (the RTE concept of BBC R3), which set up in Limerick, I got a tour of their studio. It was almost all digital with local servers and also access to all the digitally stored audio in Dublin. It may have been a mixing desk that was still analogue?
Last year as well as closing DAB, they were going to sell off Lyric or move it to Cork & Dublin and sell off the Guide. The plans seem to be in a state of flux and the proposed closing of Limerick studio seemed Political rather than financial. RTE didn't even respond to a UL proposal to host Lyric on their campus.
I remember being shown the special fluid, but even in the 1970s no-one spliced video tape except if it got damaged. Even then with 3/4" cassette it might have been split into two cases. Replacing video heads damaged by a splice wasn't cheap or fun.
