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Clear Time

Recording system, the link

between the various elements of the
chain. The script person's work is enor¬
mously facilitated; the film director can
pre-edit with pinpoint precision; the lab¬
oratory can make workprints eliminating
all NG takes; post production can de¬
rush with ease and Accuracy; the film
editor knows what he is handling at a
glance. Because Scribe, a sort of
friendly go-between, converses with the
various machines on location and during
post production.
Scribe functions as a script note¬
book: during the day, the script person
can

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introduce comments on Scribe's

keyboard, such as "Scene 35 Take 4,
overexposed, take OK" (or NG); these
comments are automatically time in¬
dexed.
At the end of each

filming day, Scribe

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retrieves from the various cameras and

■SWAMl

sound recorders the data contained in

Major Flick

their

respective Event Memories. It
long as neces¬
sary to transmit it to another medium.

stores this information as

Then Scribe correlates all the data it

con¬

tains

(retrieval from cameras or direct
keyboard entry) and transmits it in any
one of a number of ways to another

medium. Scribe

can

be connected to a

standard line

printer, providing a daily
printout. As well as this, it can transfer
the information by telephone modem to
the transcoder's mass memory (Trans M)
in the laboratory for later use; or if the
laboratory is farther than a phone call
away, Scribe can relay the information to
a bubble memory (NEC) or even to the
sound track of an ordinary tape cassette
(e.g. Philips or Sony) which will be sent
to the laboratory, or delivered with the
exposed film.
Trans

Message

This machine, in fact a computer,
two basic elements: a mass memory

has
(for

example a floppy disc) and a central
processing unit (DEC PDP11) installed in
the film laboratory. It receives information
from Scribe either directly, or indirectly. It
is here that the introduction of the spe¬

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assembles in a single register of its
memory everything concerning a
given production number.
Thus,

as

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the information trickles in, by

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film and tape is processed under

flexibility with
post production sound (multiple tracks, track
shifts, etc.) in video production, the sound
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sound

on

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on

location

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