Re: [Avid-L2] Re: So you young whippersnappers might know where we're coming from...

I know that they did shoot a few Eps on tape when money got tight.

Ian Wilson
Colortape Productions
Ian@colortape.tv
0418 327 082
Via iPhone

On 09/10/2009, at 12:14 PM, Rick <a_pmb_fan@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Well, the American version was the best show on TV ever.
>
> www.imdb.com/title/tt0106028/
>
>
>
> Rick Emery
> www.rickemery.com
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: IAN WILSON <ian@colortape.tv>
> To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thu, October 8, 2009 6:52:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: So you young whippersnappers might know
> where we're coming from...
>
>
> Rick this was locally made TV in Melbourne OZ, not sure that's what
> you are refering to, there was a US show also called Homocide.
>
> We also used to roll the DSS location sound off a ROLA 1/4 inch tape
> recorder, we became expert in putting our finger on the capstan reel
> to keep it in sync, we made up a leader with several pips on it within
> an 8 second pre-roll to get it into sync initially. The film was shot
> on an ST ARRI with a sync motor and a blimp, I am not sure what the
> location sound was shot on, it may have been a Nagra 111 but there was
> no pilot tone
> Perfectone was the first one out with that, they used to amplify 1
> volt to 110V to drive a sprocketed tape machine. Boy was that fun in
> the transfer suite when you had a pilot drop out. Of course then there
> was single system optical sound for news ( I think it was called a
> frezzalini) that used a sound system that had a visual tuning fork and
> a pot to keep the pitch with in range, the only problem was that it
> produced a buzz, which could only be removed by driving in a supplied
> earth stake and pissing on it.
> When we did news we would nominate who was the designated pisser for
> the day and they had to keep up their water levels up so that they
> could perform. This is all true I am not making this up, never the
> less, enough, NURSE! my iPone battery is flat.
>
> Ian Wilson
> Colortape Productions
> Ian@colortape. tv
> 0418 327 082
> Via iPhone
>
> On 09/10/2009, at 8:26 AM, Rick <a_pmb_fan@yahoo. com> wrote:
>
>> They cut Homicide on 2"?
>>
>> Greatest show ever on TV btw.
>> Rick Emery
>> www.rickemery. com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ____________ _________ _________ __
>> From: IAN WILSON <ian@colortape. tv>
>> To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups .com" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups .com>
>> Sent: Thu, October 8, 2009 5:16:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: So you young whippersnappers might know
>> where we're coming from...
>>
>>
>> And then there was editing 2 inch tape with a razor blade, Iron Oxide
>> and a microscope to see the backporch. On a drama called Homicide
>> that
>> I did boom on (a long time ago), the producers where so cheap that
>> they would often go back to the commercial break and start again to
>> avoide the cost of destroying a new tape, then screw us for the OT
>> because the shift ran over. Those were the days.
>>
>> Ian Wilson
>> Colortape Productions
>> Ian@colortape. tv
>> 0418 327 08
>> Via iPhone
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------ --------- --------- ------
>>
>> Search the offical complete Avid-L archives at:
>>
>> http://archives. bengrosser. com/avid/
>>
>> Avid L2, Where the Answers are.Yahoo! Groups Links
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Search the offical complete Avid-L archives at:
>
> http://archives.bengrosser.com/avid/
>
> Avid L2, Where the Answers are.Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

------------------------------------

Search the offical complete Avid-L archives at:

http://archives.bengrosser.com/avid/

Avid L2, Where the Answers are.Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Avid-L2/

<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Avid-L2/join
(Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
mailto:Avid-L2-digest@yahoogroups.com
mailto:Avid-L2-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
Avid-L2-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/