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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Who has "Changed Everything"

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Nobody mentioned 3/4-U-matic yet. It revolutionized ENG and industrial production in the 70's. Not mentioned probably because it was the most widely loathed format for much of its existence too.
 
Solid State hard drives. Driving up the data rates for hard drive non-linear editing. SATA2 HDD = 25MB/s, SATA2 SSD = 200MB/s. The next generation SATA3 SSD = 350MB/s. Now we can edit 4K RAW REDCODE files with ease and without large RAID setups.
 
The Lumiere brothers!

Or are they out of bounds?

Edit: Opps, sorry for reviving this thread. I was using the search option to find an answer to a question and got intrigued by this thread and never noticed the posting dates until now.
 
Homer
Socrates
Confucius
Copernicus
Michelangelo
Beethoven
Newton
Shakespeare
DaVinci
Marconi
Galileo Galilei
Sigmund Freud
Thomas Edison
Wright Bros.
Tesla
Walt Disney
Steve Jobs

In no particular order...

Jim
 
I hope to see some of the "shelved" technology of the early 1900's make it's way into mainstream consciousness sometime soon.. Mostly Nicola Tesla's wireless energy transmission technologies and anything free energy related.. Time to slay the oil monster.

I'd also like to see them bring back cell phones that work well as normal phones too ; )
 
Me. I walked around NAB 2006 with my homemade handle grips (two generic flash grips you can still find in camera stores today, screwed together with one grip reversed for left hand use) with my Canon GL1 recording what I saw at NAB that year.

Dozens of vendors asked where I got it, I told them I made it as a DIY project and walked on. I even went and recorded the unveiling of the RED One, stood in the front row of the crowd recording away.

NAB 2007 comes around, nearly everyone is carrying dual handle grips as the coolest thing ever.

You're welcome guys!
 
Some design hero's of mine...

Walter Gropius
Louis Sullivan
Louis Kahn
Frank Lloyd Wright
Peter Eisenman
Le Corbusier
Mies Van Der Rohe
Jim Jannard
Frank Gehry
Cézanne
Pollock
Picasso
Warhol
 
So far I don't think anyone's mentioned a woman yet...how about Marie Curie? She was only the first person to win 2 Nobel prizes -one in physics and the other chemistry.

Or Rosa Parks -Mother of the Freedom Movement?
 
In the post production world:

1. Lorimar. In 1984, Lorimar (produced Dallas, Knots Landing, Falcon Crest, and many, many other shows prior to being acquired by Warner Brothers in 1988) basically invented electronic post production and by 1986 switched all of its film based programs to electronic editing and finishing, using a variety of editing systems (Ediflex, Editdroid, TouchVision, and many others were all used) and finishing the shows primarily at Pacific Video (now Laser Pacific), Compact Video (now Level 3 Post), the Post Group, and Laser Edit (later merged with Pacific). If it weren't for the foresight and fearlessness of Chuck Silvers and Matthew Knox (VPs of Post Production at the time) we might all still be cutting on Moviolas.

2. Pacific Video (today Laser Pacific). Together with Lorimar at first, followed soon by Viacom and MGM, they developed the "Electronic Laboratory", but they also did many other truly great things, including Image Translation (the first 3:2 sensitive standards conversion process, a real breakthrough in 1987). In the early/mid 1990s, they convinced Sony to develop the first 24p HD VTR, allowing film shows to be posted at their native frame rate for the first time. This in turn led to the development of 24 frame video cameras, and the rest is, well, history.

3. the Post Group. In the mid to late 1980s, the Post Group was the unquestioned leader in the development of digital opticals, which led to digital compositing and digital visual effects for television and film as we know it today. Shows like Max Headroom in 1987 and Star Trek:TNG a year later represented radical advancement in this area.

4. Avid. No further explanation needed.
 
Jeremy Torrie said:
So far I don't think anyone's mentioned a woman yet...how about Marie Curie? She was only the first person to win 2 Nobel prizes -one in physics and the other chemistry.

Or Rosa Parks -Mother of the Freedom Movement?
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Farrah Fawcett

Her 70's pinup had a bigger impact on many teenage boys than the Mona Lisa, some might say contributed to the advancement of 3D...
 
Jannard said:
Homer
Socrates
Confucius
Copernicus
Michelangelo
Beethoven
Newton
Shakespeare
DaVinci
Marconi
Galileo Galilei
Sigmund Freud
Thomas Edison
Wright Bros.
Tesla
Walt Disney
Steve Jobs

In no particular order...

Jim
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Incidentally, Biography channel (I think?) recently had a 2-hour program on Walt Disney's life and accomplishments. Very well done. Worth seeing if they replay it.

-sc
 
Frank Weeks said:
Perhaps they are doing alright in Toronto Mark but across the board Leo is right. They're hurting and I suspect it will get worse.

BTW Cut my teeth on the The RCA TK76 and Ikagami 79A. Two great SD ENG cameras.
I would add Alias-Wavefront Power animator (SGI) and Maya, which made the jump to windows, to the list.
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I wouldn't add Alias|Wavefront to that list since they didn't technically jump to windows. It was M$ when it acquired Softimage that forced Softimage 3.51 to be available on NT (specially on DEC alpha cpus). THAT to me was the shift. After that A|W reacted with MAYA, but it wasnt till like maya 3 or 4 that it was available on a Windows machine. I remember the dynamics module and ARTISAN where $10,000 EACH on our OCTANES/O2's (dont even get me started on AVID media illusion and MATADOR!....

I could go on and on, but I'va got too many sour memories of those times...
 
Zach Nelson said:
I agree - NewTek and their Video Toaster and Lightwave 3D - oh man, bringing back memories. That was a total paradigm shift in the industry - remember their 'paradigm shift' promo video? :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nymVNhy4dw8
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Who can't remember Kiki SotckHamer on the NewTek Booth at NAB???? And/or their videos? Remember Babylon 5 (foundation Imaging) or Amblim Imaging (Stephen Spielberg & John Gross??)
 
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