Ampex Ace did that also. You could run a continuos edit as long as you had the decks. And it could accurately match into a motion edit every time. Something Grass had to fake with a preview preroll to get there.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Alan Miller <ammfx@...> wrote:
>
> I loved my Z6 and then Z6000. It could run rings around CMX but, alas,
> never caught on. In a time when H-shifts were common when matching
> in to an edit, it's ability to do multiple edits on a single pass was awesome.
> Do a cut and a dissolve to another source, trigger a title and dissolve in and
> out and dissolve to another clip all in one pass. As long as you had enough
> decks it would keep going. Pretty revolutionary for it's time.
> Alan
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> ________________________________
> From: Mikeparsons.tv <mikeparsons.tv@...>
> To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 4:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: [FCP-L] "Twenty Years Ago Today"
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>
> Yeah I knew microlok wasn't it but it was something like it....
>
> The z6000 was a great controller - best feature was dumping the edl as audio on the 1 inch master. Wherever the master went the edl went... I always consider it the birth of metadata....
>
> In think I have a convergence super stick manual somewhere.
> So
> Eeco had ontime
> VME had microlok
> United media had their thing
> Convergence had ?
>
> It's amazing anything got done!
>
> Mike
>
> On 17 Apr, 2013, at 12:24 AM, Alan Miller <ammfx@...> wrote:
>
> > I think you got that wrong. Microloc was standard on Videomedia Z6 editors which
> > preceeded Convergence. It had lots of unique features some of which worked really
> > well and others that were a little flakey. Like storing your EDL on the first few seconds
> > of your master tape. But Microloc saved many shows when the TC was bad. It just
> > didn't need it and was frame accurate. Eventually they added TC but always retained
> > the option to use Microloc.
> > Early Avid systems used Videomedia VLan boxes to connect VTRs and unknown
> > to most users read TC but referenced it to Microloc so it could cue back over
> > TC breaks.
> > Alan Miller
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> > From: Mikeparsons.tv <mikeparsons.tv@...>
> > To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:55 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: [FCP-L] "Twenty Years Ago Today"
> >
> >
> > Rush practically invented his own timecode system. My brain is foggy but the early convergence boxes were all control track tach pulses with occasional timecode updates. But it wasnt smpte i want to call it microlok but i think that's wrong. Anyway it gave you accurate edits then later there was a box you'd play audio timecode through and create an edl ... That was why the convergence always had 3 audio track control.
> >
> > They had lots of odd stuff like that from liplok which was meant to frequency shift preview sound to normal in fast scroll but actually just made a messy noise to their preference of orange vdus and insistence on calling gpis ten-coms.
> >
> > I did a lot if offline music videos in the 80s on 224s and they came with Dave bargens 409 list cleaner onboard so my conforms were damn slick which was great on a music video budget.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On 16 Apr, 2013, at 11:26 PM, "Larry" <larryasbell@...> wrote:
> >
> > > The first name came back to me, it's "Rush." Then the last name, "Hickman." Convergence guru Rush Hickman, not Hoffman.
> > >
> > > Anyone know of him?
> > >
> > > - Larry Asbell
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