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0:00 - Color Bars
0:21 - Intro
2:07 - Rundown
8:24 - Intro to Demo
9:56 - Demo
35:28 - Closing

Videonics Titlemaker 2000 Tutorial (couldn’t find the one for the 3000—super-similar though) – http://youtu.be/nJJ8XYGLW1o?si=tWILfjLrQDVsT_Rb

A peak behind the curtain. It's cool how you've figured out all this equipment to do this stuff authentically. I feel most people would end up giving in and just faking it. I look forward to seeing the whole system working together... some day.

Wow, this kinda TV hardware fascinates me! Good work, Ben! :D

16 year old me in high school Video Tech class circa 1996 would have been over the moon seeing this unit... I think we were still using an old Amiga for text effects on videos, and THAT seemed high-tech in the pre-digital editing era. I think we were either the last year or the second to last year where we were running 3 VCRs to cut together our projects vs. using a digital editing suite haha.

That's the first piece of audio-visual equipment I've ever seen with a severe case of sunstroke!!

This is far more advanced than the Commodore 64-like "keyboard" I had experience with in my high school TV club in the early 90s, that thing could only hold 15 "pages" of information and it was very basic and rudimentary.

Wow! That's positively modern compared to the graphics unit I used in the late 1980s at the Albuquerque Community Cable Channel 27. Can't even remember what the unit was called, but still have some video of the stuff from the TV show I made there.

now imagine making an entire youtube video on this

Do the folks in Archiveland rollup and put away the roads and sidwalks at 4 PM everyday?

We used this at a public access station years ago when doing a live call in tv show that was also recorded to tape.  The final output from the automation switcher went through this before going to the CATV modulator, so we could put up a call in telephone number that only went out to the air and not to tape. It also came in handy if the automation switcher took a dump and you could put a nice "please stand by" message on the screen.  Btw, this was in the 2002-2005 era.

An interesting look at the man behind the curtain.

19:46 Rappin With Benny

I used a Videonics Powerscript, a slightly newer model than this.
The simplest Chyron I know of is the CODI and PC-CODI. They were used to produce commercially subtitled anime on VHS back in the day.

Wow, why am I not surprised that you have a Newtek Calibar pen? I always wanted one of those.

That "figure of eight" is an infinity symbol ( ∞ ).

Whew! Glad I wasn't a TV student. I would've been learning this device for college projects...
...instead, I went radio. Then again, the college was so cheap, we learned on one of the first stereo sound boards used by the CBC...smh, I should've demanded a refund 🤣

20:17 You can just see the sparkles if you zoom in.

Around my house, if I took plastic off that coiled wire, it would pick up all the cat hair.  Ever try to clean those coils?
So there could be a reason they left it on.

In terms of trying to find a bit higher end chargen than this, perhaps an old Quantafont chargen might be a decent goal? I used a Quantafont QCG-500 when I worked in TV in the late 90s, at least until it died and stopped recording pages lol. Even today the font rendering is extremely distinctive to me and certain fonts I can absolutely call out as being QCG-500

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hey i have that same cg! i use it with my basement tv station for graphics