Scott Thomas
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[Herb Sevush] “The Moviola was invented in 1924, so lets say around 20-25 years. Why?”
Because editing wasn’t the reason it was created. It evolved into that roll.
The Avid Media Composer wasn’t originally developed for film. -
[Oliver Peters] “It’s films that gave us 24fps, rightly or wrongly.”
Yes, but only after they added sound. I’m sure we can all agree that everything went downhill after the change from 18fps. 🙂
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[Herb Sevush] “Yes, realizing that one of the key designers of NLEs had zero knowledge of film editing techniques and needs, and almost as little understanding of previous video editing workflows, does explain an awful lot.”
How much knowledge of film editing even existed when the Movieola was released?
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Century III was Boston and Orlando based. Oliver Peters probably knows more about them. I worked with a couple of former CIII editors when I lived in Orlando. I never heard of a TeleMation connection. There have been CIII tribute websites in the past.
Let me look… Okay, Oliver knows a lot about CIII. This was written by his wife…
Orlando Memory: Century III TeleproductionsI’m not sure what the scene is like there now, but when I was in Orlando, there was all this hope that it would become Hollywood East. We did news stories about it constantly. A friend of mine was doing live production for Nickelodeon on the Universal lot.
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Ah! DF/X Composium…
I saw one at Post Effects in Chicago around 1989 or 90. Mike Fayette was a very kind host to my older brother and I.
My boss in Orlando had used one, and wanted us to buy the used one from Century III in late 1997. I admired them, but I tried to explain that you could do everything it did with After Effects, for a lot less money. The boss wasn’t happy with my reasoning. Thankfully, I think that person is out of the business now.
Other weird systems:
Colorgraphics ArtStar 3D Plus
Colorgraphics DP 4:2:2 and DP-Max
Dubner CBG (Huge at ABC Network, (See 20/20) and Video Post and Transfer I believe)Ampex had the first commercial paint system called AVA. (Ampex Video Art) There is a tangential link to Pixar there.
Never used, but saw Aurora paint systems at CNN Center in Atlanta in the late 1990s(?)
Aurora became Chyron Liberty Paint on SGI, and that became something else…
There was III or Triple I , first on Symbolics, and later on SGI. There’s a Disney Tron link there.
Perhaps the Computer History Museum could do a wing of video graphics systems?
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The Mac Clone experiment in the 1990s was not well conceived. The last maker standing was Power Computing, and if memory serves me correctly, they were in bad shape at the end. Apple bought what was left of Power and shut it down.
I had a Power Computing ‘PowerWave 604|120’ system. it was actually more trouble than it was worth. Standard Apple PowerMac chipset, tweaked just enough to make it a little faster than a 8600, but out-of-spec enough to make 3rd party cards not work in it. I later bought the Bondi Blue G3 tower. All of the stuff that didn’t work in the PowerWave, just magically seem to work in the new system.
I’ve also built a Hacintosh. It was an interesting journey, it still runs, but I have never used it for anything production related. I’m still on a 2009 MacPro tower that I’ve upgraded the CPU on.
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With just a little bit of Googling… From 2014: DirectX Creator Says Apple’s Metal Heralds the End of OpenGL
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Hey, that’s a step up from Even Stevens…
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I was a reluctant Mac user in 1994. I came to appreciate the PowerMac after a few months. I think the worst Mac I experienced was the beige G3 with a motherboard failure, but it at least had better ingress than the 9500.
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Sorry, I could only get to about :55 before I had to stop.
I stopped listening after the author called Apple “luxury”. That is BS. In my opinion, Apple is egalitarian.