Jeff Markgraf
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Chris, you’re quite right. I had a friend who managed to spin a 1″ reel off the machine and through the window separating the edit bay from the machine room. It was a VPR 6, if I recall, and they could get up quite a head of steam in full fast forward or rewind. He forgot to tighten the supply reel clamp before rewinding. It was a post house in Dallas, located oddly enough, at Love Field. Nobody hurt, but a lot of damage.
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Yes, Bernard. Great memories. That looks like a newer RCA quad machine. It’s pretty quiet, and the guy ion the video comments on the fast lock-up time. The older Ampex decks took longer and were noisy as hell. I was still rolling news opens and bumper backgrounds on those decks as late as 1986.
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Hi Joseph. Nope, not Dubner. I remember the Dubner 20k fondly. Lots of advanced features and easy integration with a GVG edit system. Even us old online guys could do pretty decent graphics and compositing work with it. An loved (not really) that Bernoulli tape drive storage.
Ha! Hobo. Almost as bad as Comic Sans.
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And the prize goes to John Kaley!
DFX Composium it is – er, was. You have no idea how this has been driving me crazy for weeks. Interesting box with a weird, in-between feature set. So much more than a switcher/ADO/CG, yet so much less than a Henry/Hal or the like. Killed by the transition from hardware to software.
Wow. Grace and Wild. There’s a revered name from the past.
Thanks for the ID.
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Nope. It did a lot more than a Paintbox. I think it had a three letter name, like DPS, but obviously not DPS. Any other takers?
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Interesting. Sounds like a slightly souped-up version of what Avid does now. Notification and accept/reject makes a lot of sense.
Back to dead horse beating… I’ve never understood why no one has come up with an equivalent to Avid’s Unity/Isis workflow. Bin locking is such a simple and effective idea. Has Avid copyrighted this? Kinda like Avid’s trim functionality. Is it patented? Is that why other editors don’t do it? Or is there some other reason Avid has this functionality all to itself?
As a big fan of FCPX, I’d kill to see some of these features implemented.
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>Higher-ups ended up buying Accom. Accom!!!
By Accom, you mean the NLE made originally by Immix and bought by Accom? That would have been the DigiShpere, successor to the Video Cube.
Love, love LOVED the Video Cube! Best short form NLE I ever worked with (for that era, at least). (go ahead, flame away)
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Shawn, my question isn’t about one-man-band vs collaboration. I come from network promo, which is about as segmented a workflow as you can find. I’m a big proponent of letting each specialty perform his particular magic. My issue is with describing this process as multiple users working on the same timeline at the same time.
No such system exists, as far as I know. Avid, the purported gold standard of collaborative workflow, doesn’t do this. The descriptions of Resolve 11 being put out there seem to imply that it is possible. And I’ve seen this mythical process discussed several times on this board.
So, to those in the know, are we talking about multiple users on the same open timeline? Or multiple users working simultaneously within a given project, but on separate copies of a common timeline? And, if such a thing were possible, would it be a good idea?
Jeff M.
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Re: people working on the same timeline (@Jeremy & @ Oliver)
In most of these conversations, I’m seeing a certain lack of precision in how this process is described. To be clear, are we talking about multiple editors/colorists/effects people touching the same -actual- timeline? Or are we talking about multiple people starting with the same instance of a timeline pulled from an open (but locked to all except the owner) bin and doing their thing, as is done with Avid on an ISIS? I keep seeing Avid referred to as allowing multiple people on one timeline, and that is most certainly NOT the case.
I think Jeremy called the multiple users on one timeline scenario a nightmare, and I would have to agree. Or am I missing something really big here?
Jeff M.
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Quick update, Jeremy.
1. Changing timeline to HD had no effect. Just puts a render bar over everything.
2. Definitely in proxy mode. Better performance is selected when looking at original footage, but as noted above, I can’t use original at 5k on the laptop.
3. The freezing/beach-balling is almost definitely related to trimming. Especially trimming too fast.
4. I may try using the system audio card instead of the Kontrol-1 USB audio interface I’ve been using for the last couple of years. I’ve noticed some odd audio behavior since X. Maybe there’s a conflict somewhere.
Thanks for troubleshooting with me. Anyone else is welcome to weigh in.
Jeff M.