EditDroid Rise and fall 1080p
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- This un upscaled 1080P version of the original video.
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About this documentary:
In contrast to many other aspects of film production, film editing
has remained the same for a long time. Until around 1985 all films were physically cut and pasted using mechanical editing tables, which had remained largely unchanged since the 1930's.
Filmmaker George Lucas, spiritual father of the successful Star Wars series decided to invest 40 million dollars to develop a new editing system. From 1983 to 1986 the revolutionary EditDroid system was developed. This new system was created to replace the mechanical period in which film editing found itself.
The EditDroid was (one of) the first nonlinear electronic editing system and used several laser disc players loaded with the raw footage of a film. The simple computer interface was unique for its time. After a short period of success the EditDroid disappeared from the film scene and George Lucas sold the machine's patents to a small company called Avid.
In the spring of 2005 Tom van Klingeren and Bruce Gray (both editors and instructors on filmmaking at the University of Amsterdam) went to Marin county in the United States in search of the lost history of the EditDroid. They visited the editors who had worked on the system in the 1980’s and 90’s. They made a return journey to the Skywalker Ranch with the now retired coordinator of the EditDroid project. At the ranch they explored the archives of Lucas’ production company in search of the last EditDroid.
I work in the AV Staging business on business meetings and conventions. In 1996, I bought eight used Pioneer LD-V8000 laserdisc players to use at a convention booth. I was told they were "originally used by Lucasfilm" by the seller. I didn't have any more detail than that, until today. I see some Pioneer players at 33:20 here - the first proof that the seller might have conceivably been telling the truth! I still have four of those players, lurking in a closet.
It’s a damn good documentary in any format.
You should release it on Laserdisc! ;-)
That’s probably THE best compliment I’ve had so far!! Thanks! Hahaha
Amazing, was captivated the whole time, thanks!
Thank you for this Tom. Been a while since I've been up to the ranch!
Techmoan brought me here 👍👍 Great documentary
Thank you for preserving this piece of history!
I just watched this yesterday in SD
timefilm Hope you enjoyed it. Upon request I uploaded a 1080p version. Don’t forget to subscribe to my channel for upcoming new documentaries.
Thank you.
Interesting. Never heard of this machine before. I take it the Video Toaster/Flyer on the Amiga killed it.
I started with VHS tapes, then BETACAM. Computer systems for film editing for over 25 years.
It's interesting that currently AVID has missed another revolution and young people no longer use it.
27:04 JBL Control 5 LCR , I use the same monitors LCR for many years in my home cinema.
0:42 Jabba
11:43
Ik zou wel iets over ILM willen zien.
Was the Edit Droid the grandpa of Blackmagic Speed Editor?
It was the grandpa of a lot of NLE hardware and software.
@@tvkling1 Surely of all NL editors?
@@tvkling1 I think the same can be said of audio editing software via the Sound Droid also used at ILM during that time
19;06 Something tells me this translation is a little off. 😂😂😂
Why? bs or b.s... he says 'metaphysical b*llshit'