On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:21:18 +0100, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 06:44:31AM -0800, Len Ovens wrote:
Our on air was 2" machines. 5 of them. A very busy place during
commercial
breaks.
Know that :-) We had Ampexes on-air, and RCAs in the editing suites.
Those
were really lovely machines. All moving parts were controlled by
pneumatic
actuators, it was phssst, pfff, pssssst all the time while editing. Below
the actual tape deck there was something like a cubic meter of
electronics.
For slow motion playback (mainly used for soccer) there was an analog
hard
disk recorder. The disk was around 40cm diameter and the whole thing was
packaged in a glass case, you could see the heads moving.
And the frame which is actually two vertical scans... at least over here
in NTSC land. (NTSC = Never Twice the Same Colour)
Twice that (8 fields, 4 frames) for PAL...
Ciao,
Old school:
Me in 1984 on a Bosch with manually zoom
http://picpaste.de/avmz_001.jpg
Editing room and noisy vtr room with Bosch (? inches) vtrs, IIRC the big
boxes on top were the SMPTE thingies.
http://picpaste.de/avmz_002-igH5hjqP.jpg
:D
Regards,
Ralf
The pics expire in a week.
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