Tuesday, April, 21, 2009, Central Hall rear cafe,
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New for 2009:
The QuadReel
designed to make it easier for people to spot the table and group.
As it turned out... a MAP on the website or with announcements would have been a better idea, had the organizers realized that the cafe chosen was wayyy "in the booth in the back in the corner in the dark." to paraphrase Quad-era TV comedian Flip Wilson
Photos: Gary Adams,
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These folks didn't have too much of a problem finding the location.
L-R, Peter Smolka, Linear Transfer Communications, (Sudbury, Suffolk, UK) the world's Marconi B3410 Telecine support (he bought the factory spares, tools) and Quad engineer;
Bob Campbell, Walnut Creek, California, Senior Colorist, at Optimus, Chicago, One Pass, San Francisco, Editel, SF, LA, long-ago Quad user and an attendee at the initial Quad/Telecine/Editor lunch last year;
Long-time film-maker James Forsher, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Digital Journalism with the Department of Communication at Seattle University in Seattle, Washington, who is presenting at the Seattle International Film Festival in May and June;
Tim Stoffel another "original" lunch member who is also the Quadruplex Park videotape museum curator, Quad restorer and KNPB, Reno Assistant Chief Technologist.
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Far left, from the ANZ region, a gentleman whose identity we're seeking. Your webmaster thought he had his card or info, but can't find it. :(
Middle four folks are identified in our first photo.
Next to Tim Stoffel is Park Seward of Videopark in Irvine, CA, a long-time post-house owner in Louisiana, now a Sr. Video Engineer and Quad collector restoring four Ampex VR-1200's including a "Merlinized" unit with NEC digital TBC.
The guy on the right with the finger in one ear and cell phone in another is Quad Videotape Group secretary Ted Langdell, trying to "talk in" either Pat Shevlin or James Snyder. Ted is CEO of flashscan8.us, distributor of MWA Nova's film-to-digital and digital to film products in the US, Canada and select other regions. He's an old fart from film and early VT, including IVC. He collects 1" machines. |
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Both James and Pat found the table.
James Snyder is to the left of Ted and Pat Shevlin is to the right.
A member of the "original "lunch bunch, James is now the Senior Systems Administrator at the
Library of Congress
National Audio Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC) in
Culpeper, VA, where he works with Chief Technical Officer Steve Nease, Jr. James' Quad collection is now at the NAVCC.
An electronic design engineer by education, Pat Shevlin is the Director of Technology at
The Media Preserve Division of
Preservation Technologies in Cranberry Township, PA, north of Pittsburgh. He's worked for Ampex, RCA and Technicolor's videotape divisions since the 1960's. |
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James invited two associates.
On the left is Andy Booth of Jh Communications in Virginia Beach, VA.
Between Andy and James is Lloyd Bridges of Blue Sky Electronics in Houston, TX.
Rajiv Shah and Sharon Adcock arrived after photographer Gary Adams had to get back to the
da Vinci booth.
Rajiv is Managing Director of Spectrum Admark Pvt. Ltd and a Digital Restoration Consultant with Prime Focus, Limited, both in Mumbai (Bombay) India. Rajiv found Quad Videotape Group online, and contacted Ted about Quad transfers and machines for clients.
Sharon learned of the lunch through the Telecine Internet Group, the oldest e-mail list and website about Telecine, Color Correction and of late, Digital Intermediate disussion.
Sharon is the principal at The Adcock Group, which provides marketing, sales and public relations consulting services to a number of high-end companies with products at NAB. |
We had RSVP's from and hoped to see:
David Crosthwait, owner of DC Video, Burbank, who was at the initial NAB lunch last year. David has been providing archive videotape remastering on a number of legacy reel and cassette formats, and has quite a collection of machines and experience, including NBC Burbank's tape facilities, and online editing for shows including Bob Hope and Malcom in the Middle.
John Luff of HD Consulting in the Pittsburgh, PA area. A new list member, SMPTE Fellow and long-time engineer, John founded Synergistic Technologies, Inc, and ran that for 16 years before it was acquired by system integrator Azcar, also in Pittsburgh, where John was the Sr. VP of Business Development for another six years. John is presenting at the HD Masters: Making High Definition Work conference in London June 23-24.
John Moore, editor, and from what we understand, check signer at Barking Trout Productions, Studio City, CA, who learned of the lunch from the Final Cut Pro list on Yahoo Groups. John is a long-time AVID editor who also cuts with Final Cut Pro.
Alan Rosenfeld, who stirs the pot at the B&H Studio division of B&H Photo Video in New York City, and had been planning to troop over from the B&H booth (larger than a booth, really) over near Sony in the same building where our lunch was held. We have seen posts on other lists since NAB, so know that he didn't get whacked in the head by one of the many camera cranes in booths near our lunch location. |
About our Unseen Photographer:
Gary Adams was a quad tape specialist for RCA for
many years. While working at Pacific Video in Los Angeles, Gary stepped in to extend Jack Calaway's "AVRS" which Jack had developed at Vidtronics.
Gary helped turn the AVRS into the Time Logic Controller (TLC).
TLC incorporated, then extended, editorial principles originated in the AVRS. These included 3:2 pulldown (field-accurate editing; vs. conventional frame accuracy), and the notion of "sync points" that track the relationship of film footage to tape timecode at disparate frame rates.
TLC was purchased by color corrector manufacturer
da Vinci Systems in Florida.
He's been involved in product management and engineering with da Vinci since 1994, recently with the "Revival" image restoration system.
Gary, wife Linda and some of their posessions moved from West to East Coast a few years ago.
See TLC details on Jack Calaway's Virtual Museum of Early Video Editing Equipment and Techniques, preserved after his passing in 2008 by the "VT Old Boys" website, which catalogs the use of Video Tape at the BBC. |
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