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

There was a number hack in ADO for creating a page turn which appeared to
twist the page as it moved off the screen, but the original ADO didn't
actually do curved surfaces. Quantel was nice but out of reach financially
for a lot of operations. Abekas A53D had a nice page roll and, with a
combiner for multiple channels, you could do it in one pass. Otherwise, you
would lay off your backside pass over superblack to tape machine, and key
that along with the frontside.

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John Heiser
o2ideas
birmingham, alabama, USA

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Marilyn Heiss <mdivah@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> As far as I know--and I am one of the editors of "mature" vintage on
> this list -- it was a Quantel product that had the first page turns
> for tape post. It might have been the Quantel 5000, or maybe page
> turns came in with the Mirage, which is the box that brought in the
> shattering glass effect, among others. I know the first Quantel boxes
> that came into our edit suites at NBC NY were 2D, then one suite got
> the multi-channel Quantel and another got the Mirage. When ADO came
> into the picture in all suites, page turns became the transition of
> choice among many producers--they wanted to use them for everything....
>
> I cut a lot of news pieces on economic issues--lots of words with
> little video and a lot of graphic representations--in a linear room
> using a Grass Valley 1600 switcher and a one-channel 2D Quantel. So
> many passes, so many hours to put together something that, as you say,
> is now much simpler.
>
> Marilyn
>
>
> On Dec 10, 2009, at 8:50 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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