[Tig] Fourier, the wiki, DeepFocus...

[Kassner, Neal]

> >In 1979, at Unitel in NYC, we had the Quantel DPE5000, (was 
> this also called
> >the SqueezeZoom, or was that another product?)  which I used 
> in editing animatics.
> >It was deemed 'digital' but as I remember we also fed it 
> composite video.

The SqueezeZoom was the companion effects box to the Vital switcher line
(of Gainesville, FL). We used one on the CBS Evening News. As I recall,
the effects weren't editable after they were built, and I can remember
the director regularly driving the TD nuts by asking him to add another
move to the middle of an effect after the TD had spent the previous five
minutes building it -- it required going back and building the move from
scratch, usually with two minutes to air.

Actually, the box was mentioned on the TIG back in '99:

http://www.colorist.org/pipermail/oldtig-mhonarc/1999/msg00637.html

Neal Kassner

Colorist
CBS News/NY