Stories of OLD FLAME

I’m talking audio, (music) here John.

I did put up a scan of the first one on the FB group quite some time ago.

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What about Harrys foot pedals?

I had engineering rig a foot pedal to trigger capture, but don’t remember any from Quantel.

We had one at MPC. Not sure if it was ours or quantels.
Remember the corded pen!

I miss the cupholders on the Tezro. :slight_smile:

hi lightningad and all
you can get a intuos 2 working on mojave, i use it…
and an intuos 3 working on mojave and catalina.

i can post instructions if interested

Hi Andy…might be worth posting in case anyone else has the same problem, but i’m on Big Sur on all my macs, now…i spent several hours scouring google and trying everything suggested but could never get the older intuos tablets working on either of those OS…and the tablets are sat filling up a drawer in my room for eternity now.

And the interface was PINK!!!

The first verison of Flint on Impact I touched was…maybe slightly darker than this? I remember the pink dialog boxes, though. Glad to see Edit Sync still lives tho

I think the flint I was on was 5.5.1, but it might’ve been that bright gray now that I think about it more. It def had those salmon dialog boxes, though.

Flame/Flint had this light grey background with pink buttons until v6 I think.

v5 of Flame corresponded with v2 of Inferno, I don’t know why but concurrent versions of Inferno were numbered 3 steps back. So Flame/Flint 5.5 was Inferno 2.5

The darker gray UI started with v6/3. The numbering scheme was changed to yearly release numbers around 2007/8?

Numbers become fuzzy the farther I go back. Though I remember my first version was Flint 4.x then 4.4.

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Original paintbox had the pedals if you didn’t have a v series on the Harry you could use pedals to buy and sell.

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“I used to work with a Harry / Henry veteran and from the moment he told me about his foot pedal setup I’ve been wanting something similar”
An arduino mini (micro …), whatever for pedals (or ‘buttons’,) and keyboard shortcuts would do the trick.
Pretty simple setup. Wiring and soldering might be the ‘hardest’ thing.

This one is exactly programmable and ready to use.

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Technically it was a read from the harry disks and a write to the paintbox disk and vice versa.

People forget the dpc (digital production centre) generally referred to as harry was in fact three devices, Harry, paintbox and encore (and optional mirage) and access to a d1 recorder or earlier a connelly tape streamer.

9 pin 422 cables ran to the harry then looped out to the encore then looped out again to the paintbox. As you stepped one to the other via menus the tablet chose the next device only regaining harry control as the exit menus were pressed. Other fun fact the look and font of the encore hud was totally different to the rest of the system as the hud was a mod which used what used to draw the on screen axis to work reallt reallt hard and draw the menu and stripey string. I could never bring myself to say striped string when I did demos and always called it the flight line indicator…

The one thing I miss most: the Process button.

We blackboxed a k-scope to the Harry instead of the encore.

We tried to do it with the original ado 3000 as we had some spares and we all hated the encore. Turned out the ado was 4:1:1 so we had a weird 4:1:1-4:2:2 converter in the way. Set the feedback delay and set up the gpu trigger to step frame by frame and did some basic moves.

Then we checked the quality and went back to the encore. I also had a fully loaded mirage with starlight in that room which mostly got used to roll a corner up a bit to reveal a p&g logo at the end of commercials.

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