[HN Gopher] Amiga with Titanic miniature shoot video taps is tre...
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       Amiga with Titanic miniature shoot video taps is treasure-trove of
       VFX history
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2023-02-12 20:20 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (beforesandafters.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (beforesandafters.com)
        
       | ManuelKiessling wrote:
       | Tangential: has anyone watched the 4K/3D/HFR remake? Is it any
       | good?
        
       | progman32 wrote:
       | The title is a bit more understandable with original punctuation:
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       | An old Amiga with 'Titanic' miniature shoot 'video taps' on it is
       | a treasure-trove of VFX history
        
         | Gordonjcp wrote:
         | I think they might also have typoed "tapes".
        
           | plastic3169 wrote:
           | Video tap is a video camera that is connected to film camera
           | viewfinder so that crew can view material on a monitor and
           | also record preview quality image (the video taps)
        
             | moosedev wrote:
             | I'm guessing it's derived from plumbing jargon[0], in the
             | sense of inserting an access point into an existing system
             | to gain access to the resource inside; this idea is also
             | found metaphorically in the common phrasal verb "tap
             | into"[1] (make use of or gain advantage from an existing
             | resource).
             | 
             | [0] https://www.mcwaneductile.com/blog/what-are-the-three-
             | pipe-t... [1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionar
             | y/english/tap-i...
        
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