This IS the Avid L2: 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
>
> ________________________________
> 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
> >
> >
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Search the official Complete Avid-L archives at: http://archives.bengrosser.com/avid/
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]