My first contact with a Quantel Henry was during my training as a media designer for image and sound at Voss TV Ateliers in Düsseldorf at the end of the nineties. In addition to three Avids, a Discreet Logik Inferno and two tape-based editing systems, there was one of these wickedly expensive effects systems from England. Of course, each of these systems was housed in its own suites designed for customer visits and the more expensive the respective suite was, the less likely it was that a young, pimply-faced apprentice like yours truly would be allowed anywhere near it. So I could only get an idea of what a Henry was and what you could do with it bit by bit. But as soon as I had formed a reasonably clear picture, I knew that I wanted to work on the Henry.
By default, the Henry was in the YUV colour space. With the "Colour Fettle", you had to rethink things accordingly. Back then, customers were flown in by the company's own helicopter or - as here - by Quantel jet. The Frankfurt facto...
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