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Who has "Changed Everything"

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Christian Jadot

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Name a revolution in the broadcast/film/video industry? The obvious is RED.

NewTek and the Video Toaster brought a lot of power to the home user. Next...
 
- Three-color processes
- Adobe CS5
- Steadicam
- C-Stands
 
Let's see...
Arriflex - how else would we be able to see all those WWII Nazis at play.
The RCA TK76 - Self contained. Color. No more "film at eleven"
The Hitachi HL79 - The most beautiful tube camera ever. Didn't Panasonic hire their camera guy?
The Ampex 1" VCR
The IVC 2" Helical Scan - OK, it didn't change the world, but it was the best of it's day.
Ampex ADO - Wow! Watch me flip the picture! I can make a cube!
The Montage, then Avid, then Apple Final Cut for the masses
Quantel - nothing else like it; buggy as hell, no undo, but damn! Sometimes I miss it.
Discreet Logic Flame - Dream it; do it.
Sony with BetaCam - This was huge. Really, really huge. Still hanging on.
Sony with the 900 - The beginning of the end of film.
Panasonic with the VariCam - The first practical replacement for 16MM
Panasonic with the DVX - 24p for all
Red One - Sell your Kodak stock, boys.
Arri Alexa - Arri prepares for a filmless future; the economic and environmental forces cannot be denied.
Canon 5DMkII - Yesterday I couldn't spell DP and now I are one.
And starting in 2011, the Panasonic AG-AF100.
And starting when? Red with Scarlet.

I'm sure I've omitted many...

Good shooting and best regards,

Leo
 
Sound Devices changed the standard for audio mixers after decades of Shure domination, and set the new standard for hard disk field recorders.

P2 - even though it was expensive and a pain, it was the first real viable tapeless media for TV broadcast, and lead the way for everything we see now.
 
Invention of first, the vacuum tube, and then the transistor.

Graeme
 
Christian Jadot said:
Name a revolution in the broadcast/film/video industry? The obvious is RED.

NewTek and the Video Toaster brought a lot of power to the home user. Next...
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How do you define an industry revolution?

"an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed. "

--> A thorough replacement <--

I don't think RED fits. Not yet anyway. If EPIC comes along and film functionally dies a year later that'll be a revolution. Unless Alexa does it first.

AVID probably fits. Digital editing really did replace the Moviola in just a few years.

The CD was a revolution.

Pro Tools was probably a revolution.
 
Joel Kaye said:
I don't think RED fits. Not yet anyway.
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Ask the film transfer guys and girls who are now seeking employment in the child-care and food-service industries if the Red camera is revolutionary.

Film may not be dead, but it's certainly not feeling well.

Good shooting and best regards,

Leo
 
Autodesk - 3D Studio Max R1 [Runner Up, Microsoft/Softimage - XSI] ; Bringing production quality 3D tools to Windows NT and commodity hardware and forcing everybody in the 3D world to take the desktop seriously (Aka killed SGI).

Nothing Real - Shake. Desktop feature film compositing on commodity hardware.

Droid - Non Linear Editing on a computer.

Tippet Studios - GoMotion

Sony/Panavision Genesis - Digital as a legitimate/seamless alternative to film.

GrassValley Viper - Shoot to files, not tape in 4:4:4.

Cineform/SI - Shoot to a wavelet compressed RAW file. Make color changes non-destructively.
 
I changed my t-shirt and my tighty whities today. For me, that contlstitutes everything.
 
Shayne Cantly said:
Chinese Manufacturing (as much as I hate it, it has brought prices down, but quality has also suffered too. Nothing built to last...except maybe for Red)
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Unfortunately for United States manufacturing, this is certainly not true across the board; in fact, the Chinese are making quite superior products because they invested in the technology and processes to do so. Couple this with an educated workforce, and you've got a juggernaut.

I'm old enough to remember when, "made in Japan," was code for shoddy products; certainly not the case today.

I'll bet we both typed this on a computer made in China.

Good shooting and best regards,

Leo
 
Maybe you guys in the US are getting better Chinese made products than us here in Australia. Without a word of a lie, I would be lucky if I get more than 14 months out of anything made in China. I look to buy Japanese made products, cause they are much better. I have a few friends who get items made in China, and they all say the same thing. The prototype and the first batch are awesome....then it seems the manufacturing facility starts cutting costs....replacing parts with cheaper ones etc. This is why many larger companies have to put someone into China to monitor quality control. Even my clothes don't last very long now. Jag shirts that were made in the US 15 years ago I still have, and still wear. Jag shirts I bought 3 years ago that are made in China lasted two washes before they were stretched and unwearable.
 
Liam Hall said:
Marconi created quite a stir...
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He sure did.


With his newly created Tesla coils, the inventor soon discovered that he could transmit and receive powerful radio signals when they were tuned to resonate at the same frequency. When a coil is tuned to a signal of a particular frequency, it literally magnifies the incoming electrical energy through resonant action. By early 1895, Tesla was ready to transmit a signal 50 miles to West Point, New York... But in that same year, disaster struck. A building fire consumed Tesla's lab, destroying his work.

The timing could not have been worse. In England, a young Italian experimenter named Guglielmo Marconi had been hard at work building a device for wireless telegraphy. The young Marconi had taken out the first wireless telegraphy patent in England in 1896. His device had only a two-circuit system, which some said could not transmit "across a pond." Later Marconi set up long-distance demonstrations, using a Tesla oscillator to transmit the signals across the English Channel.

Tesla filed his own basic radio patent applications in 1897. They were granted in 1900. Marconi's first patent application in America, filed on November 10, 1900, was turned down. Marconi's revised applications over the next three years were repeatedly rejected because of the priority of Tesla and other inventors.
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Otis Pond, an engineer then working for Tesla, said, "Looks as if Marconi got the jump on you." Tesla replied, "Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents."

But Tesla's calm confidence was shattered in 1904, when the U.S. Patent Office suddenly and surprisingly reversed its previous decisions and gave Marconi a patent for the invention of radio. The reasons for this have never been fully explained, but the powerful financial backing for Marconi in the United States suggests one possible explanation.

Tesla was embroiled in other problems at the time, but when Marconi won the Nobel Prize in 1911, Tesla was furious. He sued the Marconi Company for infringement in 1915, but was in no financial condition to litigate a case against a major corporation. It wasn't until 1943—a few months after Tesla's death— that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Tesla's radio patent number 645,576. The Court had a selfish reason for doing so. The Marconi Company was suing the United States Government for use of its patents in World War I. The Court simply avoided the action by restoring the priority of Tesla's patent over Marconi.
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Wonder how many were taught that in school.
 
Leo, great list. That just brought back a lot of memories. I wasn't around for a couple of the early ones on your list, but certainly for many of the others. Quite a ride this industry has been on. Heck, even the early days of RED are no longer spoken in terms of months. It's been nearly five years now. Just a testament to the RED ONE and how much lasting power it has had. First cameras delivered in '07 and it's still a force out there. M-X has kept it rolling even stronger. Much respect for RED! They dived into the deep end, and not only did they not drown as some predicted but they've managed to lap some other folks in the pool with them.
 
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