[Tig] electronic editing

[Ted Langdell]

Hi, John,

On Nov 3, 2007, at 2:04 AM, John Buck wrote:

> i am writing an educational book on the history of
> electronic editing and would welcome any feedback
> on editors (or anyone) who has worked on montage,
> ediflex, mach-one, harris-epic
>
> cheers
> john
> cmx600 at gmail.com

You might want to touch base with Television Associates in Mountain  
View, CA, where the Epic was developed by TVA Co-founder Larry Seahorn.

See a picture here: http://www.sssm.com/editing/museum/epic/epic.html
which also has info on the Mach One. (It's a website all about  
videotape editing, by one of the designers of software based edit  
systems.)
Main page is here: http://www.sssm.com/editing/museum/index.html

In 1985 or so, I helped supervise a post session at TVA to master a  
one-hour entertainment program I'd A-B rolled on 3/4". The mastering  
to 1" was done in their "big room" which had one or the other  
controller.

The Television Associates website may have some stills of the Epic in  
the "about" or other sections. I think I saw some.
http://www.tva-online.com/

Googling for "Larry Seahorn" led to a domain "stopwastingtime.com"  
that has suffered a domain expiration late last month.

However, clicking on the Google "cached" link brought up an Oct. 2006  
letter from Steve Michaelson, the founder of San Francisco's well- 
known "One Pass Video" post house.

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:uPXwfa- 
t9k4J:www.stopwastingtime.com/larry/smLetter.htm+%22Larry+Seahorn% 
22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=safari

And looking a little further found an obituary. Larry died in  
Nanning, China, Sept. 3, 2006, where he had lived since 2002.

http://72.14.253.104/search? 
q=cache:eZvUW1DZ_U0J:www.stopwastingtime.com/larry/larryobit.htm+% 
22Steve+Michaelson,%22+Video&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=57&gl=us&client=safari

I suspect you can get some details from Gabreal Franklin, who can be  
e-mailed via director(at)allplanet.com

You might also register for the Old VTR's list on Yahoo and see what  
some of the folks there can tell you.

Hope this is helpful.

Ted.

Ted Langdell
Ted Langdell Creative Broadcast Services
Marysville, CA
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