Re: [FCP-L] OT: How did they do "digital effects" in the analouge era?

I should correct my initial statement. The original ADO didn't do a page turn the way I think of them now, with curl parameters etc. You could get more of a peel effect that was very close in feel to a page turn. I remembered faking magazine pages turning using a peel like move and 3 channels of ADO at the ABC prospect lot for the big bikini special for Eye on LA. Ah those were the days.

--- In FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com, "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@...> wrote:
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> Oh no the original ADO 3000 did not do a page turn. That was the big cool thing on the Abekas A-53 although it took two channels front and back and the combiner if you wanted to bring it in as a single source, or you could do two keys on the switcher maintaining priority of back over front. I never used the latter ADO 2000 and 1000 perhaps they added that feature. For the ADO you could put in some magic numbers with excessive perspective and get a page bend/twist but they were not very fun to modify. Who remembers the good ole "Shwip Shwap" move on the coveted ADO magic moves disk. Took me a year before I found the right story to use it on. Midnight Aerobics just needed that extra something the shwip shwap delivered. All that video goodness for only $180,000 per channel combiner not included. The 5 volt 200 amp power supply weighed as much as my 66 VW bug.
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> --- In FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com, Donnie Rogers <donnie@> wrote:
> >
> > Do a google for Ampex ADO, or Grass Valley Kaleidoscope.
> > And a room full of videotape machines.
> >
> >
> > Donnie Rogers
> > VP of Technology
> > Grass Roots Media, Inc.
> > 574-289-8437 Office
> > 574-250-0155 Mobile
> > donnie@
> >
> > On Dec 10, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Tom Wolsky wrote:
> >
> > > There has a page peel on most linear switchers for years.
> > >
> > > All the best,
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > On Dec 10, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Sune Alexandersen wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi group!
> > > > I'm watching an old Norwegian tv-serie made in 1979 and the opening
> > > > title made me think: how on earth did they achieve the page-turn
> > > > transition before.. Eh... Fcp/Avid.. Everything!!
> > > > They used a lot of effects in the good old days that is a simple
> > > drag
> > > > and drop operation these days..
> > > >
> > > > Hope some of you with the proper mileage could shed some light on
> > > the
> > > > issue!
> > > >
> > > > Regards from rainy Norway,
> > > > Sune Alexandersen
> > > > Sent whilst on the go!
> > > >
> > > >
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