[BC] Fun with Quad Videotape

[Alan Kline]

I wish I could provide a citation--it's been years--but I'm fairly 
certain that I've seen a published source that referenced the physical 
editing of "Laugh In". The show premiered in 1968--would NBC have been 
equipped with time code-capable VTR's that early? The source I read 
indicated that the audio track had the final mix done at a Hollywood 
audio house on mag-track film, and then laid back to the videotape. It's 
possible that the edits may have been one at a time with an 
Editec-equipped machine, but I thought I read that it was cut-and-splice 
editing.

Also, since the original CMX editor was, in part, a CBS invention, would 
NBC's "Buy RCA only" policy come into play?

ak

On 12/3/2011 9:13 AM, Xen Scott wrote:
> I would be surprised if Rowan&  Martin was constructed with much,
> if any, physical editing.  Physical edits have too many limitations to
> have been practical for a show like that.
>
> By the early 1970's, electronic editing had begun to use a time-code
> signal recorded on a secondary audio track (cue track) to control
> the electronic edit.  By this time, many editing systems controlled
> both the edit machine and the source machine(s).  This made electronic
> edits with frame accurate precision and provided a preview mode so
> adjustments could be made.  By then, the slowest part of the editing
> process was the decision making by the producer/client.
>
> Xen Scott