Chuck Reti
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Some that bubble up from the memory bank-
“Video Feedback” – point a camera at a monitor with that camera on screen, move, zoom around slowly.
Use the feedback video from the camera into a switcher to mix with other sources, or as a key signal.
Doing a slight mix with the feedback video to achieve a “recursive” look, smear, trails etc.Vidicon, plumbicon cameras with lots of knobs on them allowed the video engineer to “beam starve,” which “soft clipped” highlights and often provided a streak or trail.
High contrast keys – used an external source- another camera, motion footage, artwork, whatever- as an “alpha” and inserted camera video or generated background colors.
Not sure that AE or other software solutions can easily duplicate the recussive smear, feedback or trail effects that were achieved with a switcher and hardware DVE, often done on the fly. Maybe there’s a school or cable studio that has some old gear you can get your hands on to play on and see what you come up with..
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Yes. but check to see how it is formatted. The 1GB I bought was formatted FAT16, which, among other shortcomings, has a limit of 512 files, period. Format the drive FAT32 and you will be able to use it on both Mac and PC.
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System Preferences>Startup Disk
Make sure “Network Startup” has not been selected as the startup volume. This is what is giving you the “world” icon, then the folder indicating it can’t find a System and then searches for a drive with a bootable system on it, ending up on probably your internal drive. Select that one as your startup. All will be well. -
“Pacifist 2.0 is a shareware ($20) application…useful, for instance, if an application which is installed by the operating system becomes damaged and needs to be reinstalled without the hassle of reinstalling all of Mac OS X”
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URL for v4 and v5 at
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Another choice is Ambrosia’s WireTap Pro $19
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Editware and Aacom are separate entities. Editware https://www.editware.com, has for some time offered a “hybrid” system as described by the OP.
There is also at least one Mac-based app, whose name escapes me, that provides a simple user interface and ability to control a pair of machines, provided you have the proper RS-422 interfaces.True, sometimes all you need for many simple tasks is a pair of machines and a switcher or audio mixer.
A facility I work at kept its Editware controller active in the production control room to assemble show reels, add slates or do one-pass audio fixes or logo adds, leaving the Avids free for actual editing. -
Have you tried changing the surface on which you use the mouse? My stock, one button Apple optical mouse did exactly the same thing until I stopped using the mouse pad. Works fine on a matte finish console desktop, no jumps. The optical mice also hate highly glossy or reflective surfaces.
I do miss using the Wacom Intuos that I had in my old room. -
At the absolute very least, while you’re pondering the archiving issue, get some new tape stock and make BetaSP backups of the old tapes, which realistically probably won’t last another fifteen years. Since new recording formats come along pretty quickly these days, every few years there are going to be “New and Improved” long term archiving formats to replace the last one. Of course we all know that the “best” archiving format is 35mm black and white film (or is it U-Matic??). Since there’s no real way at present to truly future-proof archiving of magnetic recordings, the best that can be done IMO is to determine what format, tape or optical, will suit your needs at this moment, and to develop a long term strategy to provide for periodic refreshing of the library material to more up to date formats (holographic recordings, quantum cubes??) in the future. Even if recording media lasts seventy-five or a hundred years, the equipment to play the content probably won’t.
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“Producing for PBS, a How-To Manual for Producers” at
https://www.pbs.org/producers/The Production Tools links cover both production and technical requirements in great detail.
Individual stations and state or regional networks will have their own guidelines, but very likely modeled after PBS.