This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: [FCP-L] "Twenty Years Ago Today"

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
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@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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