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This will make more sense once the next proper video comes out, but I thought you'd all get a kick out of it. This is a 3.5 minute video on a dumb little gadget I had... which I shot and edited entirely on Betacam SP, using an early-90s linear editing rig. Three guesses what the next video is about. Keep your stick on the ice!

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0xBEEFBABE

Docusign Impact shirt appearance

Anonymous Freak

The only thing I can think of for being two pieces is maybe there was some regulation at the time that you couldn't have splitters that were also extension cords? So they had to ship it as "an extension cord plus a splitter" and leave it on the customer to plug the two together?

qdoggie

A/V CLUB IS BACK BABY

D. Roscoe

When you need to fit four prongs into one place, you need a Foursome™.

Stuart Rose

NEED to see the editing rig

Kirk Lane

"Information about this thing online is scarce" I wonder if the split design was some attempt at making manufacturing easier - perhaps making two plastic shells and two paperboard fillers, and plugging them together so that the paperboard was totally hidden, was cheaper or easier than trying to make a single shell and a filler plate both out of plastic?

Ed Thee Goose

The long rumored Video Toaster video?

Pietro Gagliardi

when the gun company is more likely to kill you with mesothelioma than with a magnum (after reading the description) hm I'm now wondering if you're the one who picked up a betacam sp deck from shopgoodwill that was mislabelled as an audiocassette deck =p

Manuel Tondelli

Dammit, now i want one. Also, Docusign IMPACT.

John Hamblett

I genuinely thought I had a weird graphics driver issue for a moment. then I remembered its you and I was brought up in the VHS era and everything made sense again. Until the colt rock part...

Funkmon

You know...I remember pro video looking better than this. Betacam was used well into the 90s and I don't remember it looking crap. I wonder if it's because of the LCD screens we use now.

Lachlan Lau

New to the CRD patreon so please excuse me if this question has been asked before, but is there going to be another video on ENG cameras?

cathoderaydude

I don't have a general one planned, but I have other ENG cameras I intend to cover, yes.

Asaf Sagi

OK, I did some research. I googled "Foursome", I learned a fuckton and I'm happy to share my findings. I'll need three volunteers

Jason Long

Heh I remember somewhat the opposite - I’d send relatively crappy (back in 2000ish) video from my PC to my CRT TV (not the CRT monitor) and would think damn, that TV makes this compressed video look a lot less crappy..!