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
Alan Miller
48 Hours Mystery
CBS News
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From: Mikeparsons.tv <mikeparsons.tv@gmail.com>
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"
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@yahoo.com> 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
>
>
> Alan Miller
> 48 Hours Mystery
> CBS News
>
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> From: Mikeparsons.tv <mikeparsons.tv@gmail.com>
> To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:55 AM
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>
>
> 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@erols.com> 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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