Vice. Go tell this man about Vaporwave. He has so many music videos to make and he doesn't even know.

@sieve5

6 жыл бұрын

this comment has so much yes. ^^^^

@SuperSiggiboy

6 жыл бұрын

Useless Duck Company you should make an episode where you try to build your own Scanimate

@meesacalledjarjarbinks3500

6 жыл бұрын

This so much this. Vaporwave is just taking off on KZread and this man has the music video potentiality at the tip of his fingers.

@mickeymephistopheles

6 жыл бұрын

Vaporwave is so 2015. I'm into cyberhula now.

@TheAstronomican

6 жыл бұрын

I was about too write this before I saw your comment

This guy could literally work 24/7 the rest of his life making graphics for KZreadrs.

@andrewnagy9174

3 жыл бұрын

What a shitty existence that would be

@nettieharris

3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewnagy9174 really would it? Maybe to you

@Flackon

3 жыл бұрын

@@nettieharris Nobody should have to work 24/7

@goldenblood9316

3 жыл бұрын

​@@Flackon ​ @Andrew Nagy Hey uh... Guys, I don't mean to break the news to you late, but I think the 24/7 bit was what we call an exaggeration.

@stevezilla68

3 жыл бұрын

@@goldenblood9316 We are living an a literal world. Literally.

"some people might think I'm crazy" - literally one of the most sain and intelligent humans I've seen in the last months

@utubepunk

3 жыл бұрын

sane*

@al5612

3 жыл бұрын

When you surround yourself by stupid people its hard to not point the finger at yourself.

People like this are genuine, I can feel the purity of his soul...

@jamskof

2 жыл бұрын

wow, you really wanted to get noticed here didnt you with that doozy.

I hope I find something in life that makes me even half as happy as this man. Godspeed Scanimate Man

@vrieskip

3 жыл бұрын

Find a hobby, one that is pointless. Where the time and money you put in, you’ll never get back. One that is not productive, that will never earn you any money, fame or friends. There you’ll find happiness. Maybe you’ll get more out of it in the end, but that shouldn’t matter at that point.

@david-leethompson62

3 жыл бұрын

Dear mr. Spielberg ,,, Pay 7 Young interns,,, 29k To help catalog, fix, re-search & Locate Others( must be several across the planet: think big) As latka said... Tha. Nnnnk U Vvvvery Much!

@LittleRainGames

3 жыл бұрын

electronics or software.

@masslovedistro674

3 жыл бұрын

@@vrieskip have a nice life :)

@PlaneGeek007

3 жыл бұрын

amen!

"Its been worth it to me!" Damn that got to me

@PrydeLive

6 жыл бұрын

MrKittke I cried

@m0b5pawn94

6 жыл бұрын

Same here 😢

@dustyvinyl6687

6 жыл бұрын

Well he's not wrong. Especially since everything now days is disposable.

@DavidKirwanirl

6 жыл бұрын

Yep.. this was amazing.

@chingon1988

6 жыл бұрын

All that matters. This man is complete.

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground"

@samanthaqiu3416

3 жыл бұрын

💔

@finntastique3891

3 жыл бұрын

Well said, all that knowledge accumulated over a lifetime just vanishing - unless it has been passed on to someone younger who will continue to carry the flag.

@emperorkimjong-un9922

3 жыл бұрын

old men are just boomers

@sonicbro6446

3 жыл бұрын

@@emperorkimjong-un9922 well, atleast this boomer made people's childhoods

@aristotelisentertainment279

3 жыл бұрын

@@emperorkimjong-un9922 what do you mean?

This guy is like the wise old grandmaster of Vaporwave graphics and he doesn't even know it!

@darthvader5300

11 ай бұрын

I have forgotten the name of that OLD 1990s device Old 1990s device where you connect your vcr, tv, dvd, etc and just press the bottom if you want to watch tv or vcr or dvd or whatever while all of them are running at the same time. Anybody out there knows the name of that device? My American friend wants to know the name of that device because he remember using it as a kid when in the 1990s he has a TV, a VCR, a DVD, a Radio-Cassette, a Hi Fi Stereo FM and AM set with vinyl record phonograph. And is there anybody out there who knows the name of that OLD 1990s TECHNOLOGY DEVICE? He said it more convenient than those all digital system when with his old 1990s technologies (some of which he is still looking in his garage) are all analog controls using press bottoms, level bottoms, knobs, dials, slide controls, slide switches, lever switches, etc ALL ANALOG as he describes it.

@glennjamin

4 ай бұрын

@@darthvader5300They are still made today. They are called AV switches. You can plug in several devices at once, then connect your TV to the output. Pushing a particular input's button will switch to that input.

this needs to be 30 minutes longer ;_;

@JLsoft

6 жыл бұрын

scanimate.com ...

@R3TR0R4V3

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly! 5 minutes is bullshit!

@bobcostas6272

3 жыл бұрын

JLsoft neat

@Are_Pee_Gee

3 жыл бұрын

YES!

Operating Scanimate was my first Job in 1981! thanks Dave for preserving these amazing animation systems.

@KaitlinGaspar

3 жыл бұрын

that is so cool!!!

@seronymus

3 жыл бұрын

Woah please tell us more

Biggest, oldest, most addictive toy ever. There’s so many buttons, switches, levers and ports, so many variations of ways to change what you see I bet it really doesn’t lose it’s appeal, plus knowing it is so rare helps it’s desirability

@aluisious

3 жыл бұрын

It reminds me of deadmau5's setup for making sounds. It does a lot of the same stuff the same way.

As an 84 baby, this guy is my hero. The last of his tribe of a bygone era, passionately carrying on the torch of the analogue world that is slowly eroding away. A living legend. I hope he knows there has been a renaissance of sorts with synth wave music and music videos from this era.

@D84D

2 жыл бұрын

I graduated high school 1984. From 74 to 84 the analog I saw

@scientistx5717

2 жыл бұрын

Analogs are coming back

@darthvader5300

11 ай бұрын

I have forgotten the name of that OLD 1990s device Old 1990s device where you connect your vcr, tv, dvd, etc and just press the bottom if you want to watch tv or vcr or dvd or whatever while all of them are running at the same time. Anybody out there knows the name of that device? My American friend wants to know the name of that device because he remember using it as a kid when in the 1990s he has a TV, a VCR, a DVD, a Radio-Cassette, a Hi Fi Stereo FM and AM set with vinyl record phonograph. And is there anybody out there who knows the name of that OLD 1990s TECHNOLOGY DEVICE? He said it more convenient than those all digital system when with his old 1990s technologies (some of which he is still looking in his garage) are all analog controls using press bottoms, level bottoms, knobs, dials, slide controls, slide switches, lever switches, etc ALL ANALOG as he describes it.

This thing is basically a monster analog video synth. You can still buy analog video synths, small companies make them from time to time, but they tend to be small and fit into rack systems and can't do nearly what a beast like that old machine can do. God bless this guy's heart for taking care of it.

@elissitdesign

3 жыл бұрын

Yah the modular music heads are buying them for their racks. I’ve seen a few floating around.

"...that's really where the term plug-in came from." Man, that hit hard for some reason.

@dogfreak3000

3 жыл бұрын

Never occurred to me tbh...

@severiusbrandusa1413

3 жыл бұрын

@@dogfreak3000 same. I know about jack-in but that's because of megaman.

@abepeterson

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, plugins....never thought about it either honestly. Plug and play...instantly designed to work soon as you physically plug it in. Super wild.

@dhoffnun

3 жыл бұрын

Etymology do be like that sometimes.

@MapleJokerRofl

3 жыл бұрын

Same

I can't be the only one who really wants a full documentary about this, can i? Also, the last comment: Some people say i wont amount to anything, but its been worth it to me. That is pretty much the wisest and most comforting words ive heard ever regarding life choices

@lonnyyoung4285

3 жыл бұрын

I'd watch it.

@stephenblevins7151

3 жыл бұрын

I agree this would make a great documentary. It has everything and so many possible tangents. The history of this, the technology, how it influenced graphic design and tv, the overtaking of analog technology by digital and our quick changing society that is willing to throw out something this cool for something new. Most importantly however, is his story and how he has kept his machine working, his love for what he does, and the obsession and passion for something in life that not everyone can see or appreciate. Utterly fascinating.

@martinzarate9683

3 жыл бұрын

LinkedIn Learning already made one Scanimate: The Origins of Computer Motion Graphics kzread.info/dash/bejne/m2WVtsF8ocvfgdY.html

That wireframe of a camera is beyond amazing.

Why does obsolete technology have to be so beautiful? “This stuff was made to be fixed” - Dave Sieg

@DarkAngelEU

3 жыл бұрын

It's not obsolete, nothing can replace it. Apple, however...

@vyrva5690

3 жыл бұрын

@@DarkAngelEU ah yes because you can clearly use a 40 year old computer and still have it do everything computers nowadays

@xc8487

3 жыл бұрын

@@vyrva5690 "tools" last forever, "computers" become obsolete. This is basically a large tool, not much computer stuff, just buttons and dials.

@DarkAngelEU

3 жыл бұрын

@@xc8487 It still makes calculations, so technically speaking it still is a computer? The difference is that this computer is entirely analog, and modular, Apple computers aren't analog nor are they designed to be modular and that is the problem with modern technology: the producers don't want it to last. They treat it like a consumption product instead of a tool.

@dabelli3818

3 жыл бұрын

@@DarkAngelEU even tools today are made to become obsolete or break apart quickly enough. It's a shame, CEOs have no respect for anyone apart from their money

I hope this man lives forever cause if we lose him we lose a lifetime of knowledge and experience of a technology that most people don't understand.

@michalvalta5231

6 жыл бұрын

The thing is, it's absolutely obsolete... :D

@incognitotorpedo42

6 жыл бұрын

That keeps happening, over and over. That's a good reason to cure aging. See SENS.org

@tobiaszistler

6 жыл бұрын

Michal Valta and KI will make you obsolete

@GraveUypo

6 жыл бұрын

this is cool and all, but mankind has an unhealthy obsession with preserving everything it ever did. i mean, come on! okay we'll lose this, then what? nothing changes. we didn't have this 50 years ago, we'd go back to not having this. it really isn't important that this is remembered in the long run. sure, it's a neat piece of tech history, but still...

@maximf.5537

4 жыл бұрын

GraveUypo looks very different tho. Much more appealing than digital to me.

The visual graphic version of a Moog is a great analogy. People making retro/synthwave style music should beating this guy's door down to do graphics for them.

3:39 "Your iPhone quits working you go get another one and throw the old one away but this stuff was made to be fixed" that's so fucking savage

@denizoezdemir358

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

@jeremiedsouza6703

3 жыл бұрын

We're being deprived of the right to repair

@threadschanged4252

2 жыл бұрын

be responsible and maintain your technology and you will never need to replace most things again

@Autistic_Cowboy

2 жыл бұрын

My 40 year old motorcycle engine runs just as good as a new one because it was maintained.. and like he said it was made to be fixed. Nothing is like that anymore.

@robertmcintyre9023

2 жыл бұрын

@@threadschanged4252 you don’t understand what is being discussed here

As someone who's been been working in motion graphics for over 10 years, i'm only now realizing how much i owe this kind man and people like him. By the end there i really got misty eyed. Well done.

@deldridg

3 жыл бұрын

I got a bit misty too. My connection is through old analogue synths and the endless forms you could produce, all that lovely warmth that comes from drifting oscillators etc. I love this guy and hope he's still doing his thing. Cheers - Dave

@Bobo-uh1bx

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@XplicitStudios

3 жыл бұрын

Same ... This man's hard work is very appreciated

Last sorcerer of analog alchemy without an apprentice.

@fastertrackcreative

6 жыл бұрын

I'm wondering what will happen to the machine if he passes away or has to go in a home. I'm not sure his age but he's not 20 anymore. Not hoping something bad will happen but in case.

@RyanSchweitzer77

5 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking the same thing when I saw this video, Mr. SIeg should really have a younger fellow under his wing to learn the ways of the Scanimate, to keep it running and existing for the future. God bless Dave for acquiring and maintaining such a unique system (or systems in his case) as the Scanimate is.

@sumocloud

4 жыл бұрын

Analog video synthesis has has something of a renaissance recently:) check out lzx industries

@richardhead8264

3 жыл бұрын

😭😭😭

@zilfondel

3 жыл бұрын

@@fastertrackcreative He's probably in his 60s, and I would imagine his kids will just roll in a dumpster and haul it off along with their crazy dad's collection of post it notes. Well, at least thats what my parents did with my grandfather's 10,000 casette tape collection of 1980s through the 90s obscure video recordings.

This guy could make an absolute killing because 80s graphics are massively coming back. They are so iconic and people love the vibe. Put your name out there! People will a pay lot for this to have as a intro screen for their channels. Especially gaming channels.

This guy is literally keeping decades of history alive with his machine, a tremendously important work in any society. Fact is I never even heard of the scanimate but he is sitting on a working example, but what about 50 years from now on? What then? Scanimate will only be real in the history book, but thanks to people like him, its here and its working.

@randomname9565

Жыл бұрын

Is this a joke or have they put the commies in an echo chamber?

“It’s been worth it to me.” Bravo. “We live in a throw away society.” Yep.

@6884

3 жыл бұрын

yeah this was nice :)

@FunctionallyLiteratePerson

3 жыл бұрын

It doesn't help that devices are planned to become obsolete and the right to repair does not exist in many places [in the US]

@step2191

3 жыл бұрын

the most honest words ever spoken.

@Nemcija

3 жыл бұрын

No - we live in a destroy-the-planet society.

@YoO161

3 жыл бұрын

obviously, once something has no purpose and it is a mashine, you can throw it away. overly emotions about mashines is useless and stupid

Once he said moog Synthesizer, I knew I would like this guy.

@biggrime

6 жыл бұрын

808 i second that!

@mangoldm

6 жыл бұрын

And pronounced it properly.

@ChrisTheGregory

6 жыл бұрын

Well he is just down the road from them so it makes sense.

@andyq9669

6 жыл бұрын

Analogue synths have come back in a big way, maybe it's time for the analogue video revolution!

@nahco3994

6 жыл бұрын

I kinda don't see that happening. Analog signals can't be compressed the way digital signals can. Remember, you need ~3GBit/s in order to drive just a 1080p screen at 60 fps (uncompressed, constant bitrate). Now quadruple that for 4k screens. That amounts to roughly 1.5 gigabyte of data per second. Can an analog signal come even close to that?

J-B.J. Fourier: In the end, everything is a sine wave.

@yt_nh9347

3 жыл бұрын

Electrical engineers get this

@Hojahs

3 жыл бұрын

"-except discontinuous signals, and also cosines"

@billclinton6040

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hojahs except cosines are just phase shifted sine waves and even discontinuous signals are infinite sums of sine waves. Got any other exceptions I can tear down? lol

@Hojahs

3 жыл бұрын

@@billclinton6040 you definitely havent torn anything down buddy. Discontinuous signals must obey the Dirichlet conditions and suffer from Gibbs phenomenon if you try to reconstruct them from Fourier series

@Hojahs

3 жыл бұрын

@@billclinton6040 also you can really only talk about signals that are either square-integrable, or whose higher frequency components quickly tapir off when doing Fourier analysis

What a great guy and a fascinating machine.

As a synthesist myself, I immediately began thinking about how this Scanimate is essentially exactly like the Moog modular synthesizers, with oscillators and filters. It's an analog video synthesizer! Fascinating stuff!

@carlhilton4747

3 жыл бұрын

I was wondering if the Scanimate could be patched into a Moog modular... You could make some wild visualizations in real time!

@GreedomWorldwide

3 жыл бұрын

Visual Moog. Exactly.

@poopiepants1564

3 жыл бұрын

it's art

@jonathanjonnylightning718

3 жыл бұрын

Are you referring to Synthesizers in music like Some Westcoast Rap and R and B kind of electronic instruments?

@GreedomWorldwide

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanjonnylightning718 Bro just go to sleep

This is pure gold for anyone who wants to make authentic 80's TV. Nothing is the same

Dear Vice... As a long time watcher I am begging you please do not stop doing segments like this... If you don't do it no one else is going to and this is such a wonderful documentary. this one and the one about the old Pentecostal preacher still doing tent revivals are my two favorite episodes. You showed respect and integrity to both. Bravo Vice ..bravo.

I'd love to hear an extended cut of that interview. Pretty inspiring.

I would love to have him make graphics for me. This kind of timeless design needs to live on!

@LUZ-zv6pq

3 жыл бұрын

It's not really timeless, it's totally 80's but that doesn't take anything away from it at all, its very cool!

@l-l

3 жыл бұрын

@@LUZ-zv6pq it’s timeless because it’s unique that’s the point. It stands out long after it was relevant due to the memories it can bring or just the unique visual aspects or what the physics and mechanical engineering behind all of it. That is what I see as being timeless.

@LUZ-zv6pq

3 жыл бұрын

@@l-l good analogy 👍

@rolux4853

3 жыл бұрын

@@IMAGE_NT_HEADERS someone’s looking for attention, huh?

@WokerThanThou

3 жыл бұрын

_We are controlling transmission. ... We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity._

this guy needs an apprentice to take up the torch for him. someone who can reinvigorate that look into pop culture.

@Kevin-xd2yv

3 жыл бұрын

This methodology will never make a comeback because it is not cost effective. The effects produced on this machine can be simulated seamlessly digitally by someone on a decent laptop.

@iskogproductions6728

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kevin-xd2yv of course, but the point here is to be able to design an effet and render it on an analog machine like this one

The controls look like the death star controls in a new hope. “You may fire when ready!”

@russgrycza753

3 жыл бұрын

It was a Grass Valley switcher, filmed at KCET in Los Angeles. He just has a newer model, the GVG 200. www.kcet.org/tv-talk/how-kcet-helped-destroy-alderaan

@fdsdh1

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if the Death Star plans for the briefing sequence were made on the machine

This is the kind of stuff that I love about old school tech. It's always so interesting how it all works and where it all started from. And this man here is keeping a legacy alive, at most respect he's like a hero.

He is a ham radio operator too. It makes my heart happy to see the included shot of his HF setup, and knowing he has a TNC2 for HF packet. 73’s to him. Nerds rule the world.

@tedscheckler1

3 жыл бұрын

I immediately recognized that transceiver because it was my first HF rig

@huleyn135

3 жыл бұрын

no they dont

@kurtfrancis4621

3 жыл бұрын

@@huleyn135 Uh, yes we do. Without the "nerds" of the world, the world would come crashing down right quick.

@lands1459

3 жыл бұрын

i also noticed that :)

Vice, I think the people here would love a little more depth behind the man and his machine. Maybe dive into the history of the machine itself and tie him in elsewhere with questions like how he got involved, the impact it saw, etc.

@LukasFink1

6 жыл бұрын

maximus5415 Or just explain how the machine works and what it can do.

@hunterericson6782

4 жыл бұрын

maximus5415 yeah this was waaaaaaaay too short

@dylandylan1173

3 жыл бұрын

Oh absolutely!!!!

@NineteenEightyFive

3 жыл бұрын

yeah! i started watching and then noticed it was only 5 min! figured it at least be 15-20.

@KevinBeee

3 жыл бұрын

Just search KZread for his name "Dave Sieg", and you'll find his channel which is full of videos going into a lot more detail

This is almost a lost art form. I'm glad to see the retro stuff come back, especially the liquid light shows. This is my childhood.

This is way tooo short for something like this, it's a tragedy how much tech and art has just been trashed

He's got the 20th century memories and technologies in his fingertips and work skills ...analog was magical.

vice we need more of this not fuckin "oh yeah weed dude"

@NocturnalAndres

6 жыл бұрын

right?

@iconoclasttastic9258

6 жыл бұрын

right. Pass that doob tho yeah?

@clayfromplanetearth3509

6 жыл бұрын

DUDEWEEDLMAO

@bobyrd4386

6 жыл бұрын

Byron Smith Roll up though!!

@voltag3man

6 жыл бұрын

Byron Smith Just because you dont like weed, shutyoooo bitchhasss up....

I really hope he manages to pass this knowledge down somehow. There really is nothing like the feel of those images, it's a special and timeless piece of technology.

@Kawayoporu

5 ай бұрын

+sandequation2653 Didn't he past it down to his adult children, grandchildren or great-grandchildren?

How the absolute hell have I never seen this video? Other than woodworking, I spent half the time in my electronics lab repairing industrial test equipment and doing component level pcb repair. I spend 12 hours a day on KZread watching electronics videos.... so that I don’t get so lonely in the lab… And Iv never seen this video nor has it ever been recommended. And I search for new electronics videos constantly. Not sure if the gentleman in the video will see this… But this is very impressive. Would love to see more about your work. Also Reminds me of a guy on KZread (Dexters tech lab) who has been restoring a “quantel paint box” graphics workstation. I hope you see this comment I think you would find it interesting. Thanks for what you do! I think there will be a huge explosion and rediscovery/protecting any of the old equipment that exists.

As a motion designer, this equipment is history! Preserve it! I love the old-school look and it makes me happy that this equipment is still around.

@wetlettuce4768

3 жыл бұрын

This stuff is going to be like the steam engines in museums in the futre, it really does need preserving.

When he dies generations worth of art dies. He is art he is the key.

@jeremybyington

3 жыл бұрын

This is what I have wondered about the most during this pandemic. How many people like Dave have we lost? I hope he’s still in good health!

@JWazza

3 жыл бұрын

It's hardly generations. Literally one, maybe 2.

@THORTHOR1337

3 жыл бұрын

Just note: there are still few people using similar analog video hardware for various visual effects mostly glitches. Although mostly used to create visual art stuff rather than these practical motion graphics.

@cesarvega7297

3 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly

@tvojslauf

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeremybyington that’s what you wondered about most? With everything going on that’s what you wondered about most? Really? Seriously really?

I watched old animations that looked like cgi and wondered "how did they do THAT back THEN?" Now I know.

Hey Vice thank you guys for sharing something like this that is just beautiful and touches ones heart. I hope this man can donate his knowledge to an archive somehow someday.

I hope this man has found an apprentice. We cannot let this die.

@mousepointer12

3 жыл бұрын

I would do it if I could move there and survive

@user-jr6ic3xm9y

3 жыл бұрын

I love the way old animated intros and animation in general looked it's so very nostalgic. I'd love to see this used again I also hope the remaining Scanimate machine doesn't get destroyed.

@fannetomas

3 жыл бұрын

LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER is one among so many others who can take over ...

He should be teaching people how to use and maintain this great machine, so that future generations can use it.

@harrisonphelps2065

6 жыл бұрын

obsolete..

@kellyroyds5040

6 жыл бұрын

Kyle Phelps Why? Because you say so? Because there's newer technology? It's a fascinating piece of history that many people would love to get their hands on. If you're not interested fine, but don't knock the interests of others.

@joshuaconstable6323

6 жыл бұрын

Kyle Phelps so? Going by that logic most fun activities are obsolete, does that mean we should stop having fun. Not everything needs to be done in the pursuit of progress

@marcryvon

6 жыл бұрын

What a sorry comment. Of course it's obsolete but even so other great old inventions. Cars, planes etc. So, what ? Trow history away ??

@thejquinn

6 жыл бұрын

Marc Renee, Well the gas used in those things is whats obsolete

"Its been worth it to me" thats when my eyes teared up. Because I can relate. I rebuild old crashed Mustangs and give them a second chance of life and people ask why. Because its worth it to me. This was a great video. How could someone dislike it?

I love this look too...it truly takes you back to a more comforting homey time...remembering all the intros for late night TV movies!

I'd kill for an afternoon in this lab

@jesussalinasr

6 жыл бұрын

IISIVEII please kill me, but I can't promise you time in that room

@badrouter501

6 жыл бұрын

yeah lets go and kill something, gnaaa

@PizzaDwight

6 жыл бұрын

Weenie Hut Jr's you're first

@alanism3d

6 жыл бұрын

Buddy boy if this is your attempt at being funny, it didn't work. If you're being serious, you need to be admitted yourself.

@jesussalinasr

6 жыл бұрын

Is someone going to kill me or not God damn it

I bet this guy could make money by making openings for certain KZread channels. Especially retro channels that review old electronics.

@HardcorePanda

6 жыл бұрын

Most KZreadrs use After Effects vintage templates, cheaper and some are even free.

@m4w

6 жыл бұрын

@techmoan are you listening?

@tupacshakurfourlife

6 жыл бұрын

Hardcore Panda that's not the point tho. This is unique. Something you couldn't really do anymore.

@CarlosSanchez-en6mr

6 жыл бұрын

Lorenzo Aguinaga but would anybody really notice or care? I mean if a youtuber makes a video using the old technology and another uses something new like after effects there would no difference and a waste of time and money, meanwhile, someone can use after effects and say they used old technology and no one would know

@siopowar

6 жыл бұрын

Carlos Sanchez you go to a nice restaurant and sit in their chairs, do you care or notice that they were made unique for that restaurant? The viewers may not care or notice, but they still get to enjoy the visual while the consumer gets to enjoy the novelty while supporting another persons business.

It takes time to come across great content like this on KZread, I hope more people like Dave can help us preserve a part of history that we should never forget.

It is very touching hearing the excitement and wonder that is in his voice.

The amount of passion this man has is way undersold by the interviewer . ive talked with him in the past and hopefull have the pleasure to do so again . sending mail to ya out there in the waves of skip. 269 - 269 in this black gold sitting back reading the mail.

Being that I love analog synths, this is amazing! It really is the visual equivalent of a synthesizer. Bless this man for what he's doing. So cool

@NocturnalAndres

6 жыл бұрын

so inspiring

@ClayMann

6 жыл бұрын

It is in a way but not on closer inspection. Analog synthesis has endured so well that digital tries to emulate what was and is so great about analog. You can blow someone away who hasn't stood in front of a classic or modern analog synth. Analog graphics on a little 21" crt just doesn't move you. Its interesting, fascinating even but there is a reason this all got dropped when computers came along and no one ever really went back to revive it.

@Wiktorion

6 жыл бұрын

Have you checked out modular video synthesis? There's a modern market sprawling with brand new stuff. Check out LZX Video to get started!

This man has a very rare set of skills with an even rarer piece of equiment. I can imagine media companies and even KZread channels will be interested in working with him.

@yestfmf

3 жыл бұрын

When he passes the equipment will go to the dump. No one left to operate it or to even care. I personally hate to see that happen to operating equipment. Each machine represents huge quantities of creative development time. So much time and skill went into making solutions, only to throw away that hard-fought knowledge.

@ce5983

Жыл бұрын

​@@yestfmfsomeone pure of heart needs to go be his apprentice ASAP

Absolutely fantastic! Love this video.

Seeing these kinds of animations on TV when I was a kid inspired me to go into production. That was 40 years ago. It’s taken me around the world. All the terrific people I’ve met continues to drive me until this day.

I have been fixing my 80s sound equipment I got from an old bar and know exactly what he means. Every feature has a knob, a switch, a dial - everything can be used in real time and fixed. Just based on what you have you can see exactly how it was made if you take it apart and you know precisely what the person setting it all up wanted.

Que reportagem incrível. Esse cara deve ser muito feliz com o que faz. Minha cabeça explodiu com a explicação do termo "plug-in"!!!

@Der.Geschichtenerzahler

Жыл бұрын

Eu também. Nunca soube que vinha disso.

After a few years of experience in AE and seeing what's popular these days, the closer you get to this look, the more popular / successful you are. Everything moves in a circle, (motion) design apparently as well.

This literally answered a question I have had since I was 10 years old.

@Petem7668

3 жыл бұрын

What was the question?

@stephenblevins7151

3 жыл бұрын

I always was amazed by and wondered about the splash of the opening graphics for Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. We had the first color tv on our block (we were poor but my dad loved radio and tv) and people came to our house every week to watch this show. The reaction was always "wow!".

Im like this guy. I hate seeing old tech being thrown out. Stuff that back in the 70s 80s and 90s that people used without a second thought. Laserdiscs, reel to reel, betamax, ced, record players etc. All that stuff had character. Different curves and edges that made those appliances unique. Gave them thier own identity. You could take 1 look at machines back then and know who made it and how much care and inovation went into developing it. Whenever i go to goodwill or flea markets and i see old stuff ill walk up to it and in my head I ask that vintage record player, "whats youre story? Where have you been? What have you seen? What was it like back in the day?" I guess I look at things like they have a heart and soul. Old tech may be boring to the current generation but this stuff needs to be preserved. It is the embodiment of human creativeness, and the drive humans have to push the boundaries of what technology can offer.

@WilliamDye-willdye

6 жыл бұрын

Jared Smith : Just as the form and function of a flower was shaped by biological processes, the form and function of our technology was shaped by our thoughts. Old tech indeed has a story -- our story.

@BigDaddyWes

6 жыл бұрын

But the new iphone is the only thing that matters to most people in the modern world. Old tech is awesome and vintage gear will always be awesome. Although, new technologies are constantly being developed and improved so a piece of electronics is outdated quickly. Most of the time for better.

@Dorelaxen

6 жыл бұрын

I find myself going back and collecting a lot of the older stuff now, too. Cassettes, 8-Tracks, vinyl, etc. You can get it for almost nothing most times, and it's just fun to collect.

@GalileoAV

6 жыл бұрын

Jared Smith I only hope the modern electronics I use some day have that level of character, and last like the old things did. They just don't make things like they used to.

@XCAltoona

6 жыл бұрын

I listen to old video game music - stuff that they had to contort their sound chips and use parts of console and cartridge memory that weren't even meant for music - and even if the big, sweeping soundtracks of practically-limitless storage space we have nowadays can be amazing, there's something special about having to be creative to even start getting the sounds you want out of a machine. So I get you.

The joy in this man. Its a spark of pure energy. Bless him!

I would love to see someone put together a tour where all the visual effects are compose using a scanimate

"things were made to be fixed". Sounds about right.

@justethical280

3 жыл бұрын

Please tell this to apple....

@acepierrechaka1782

3 жыл бұрын

And Microsoft on their Xbox controllers

@CrazyKraut20

3 жыл бұрын

@@justethical280 apple is utter trash, the fact that this company is as healthy as it is saddens me

@MsZiomallo

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrazyKraut20 I hope they go bankrupt, they've created lots of nasty practices. Give us our jacks and chargers back, Tim! Even Samsung followed you and joined the dark side! If you're still not discouraged to buy some Apple sh!t, just watch Louis Rossmann's channel.

I hope someone learns from him and keeps the legacy going. I bet some big artist would love a video with these graphics anno 2021. It's so cool

@mfbfreak

3 жыл бұрын

I'm absolutely sure that there are some new generation people who would love to. However, fairly few of us have a large room we can dedicate to such hardware...

@Jorcap

3 жыл бұрын

@@mfbfreak thing is, we need people like him to learn from. If we don’t we lose knowledge.

That is beautiful. And so many dials and knobs. It would be amazing to know how such a thing worked. So much beauty in the ingenuity of analog, lost in the transformation to digital.

This was me using Amiga for everything (between 1993 and 2003: music composing, design, art & paint, desktop publishing, printing, video editing...) It was amazing time and I know exactly how this man feels :) Thank you for the video :)

The confused guy with the blueprints could have said “just building something for the school” But instead he encouraged a young mind and created something that he isn’t even ever aware of. And I bet he wasn’t his teacher. Imagine if all people in the school system treated students like this. Props to the confused guy with blueprints who asked for help, which he probably didn’t even need.

@dickJohnsonpeter

3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately they're too busy pushing weird sociopolitical ideology on kids for that.

@JimJamTheAdmin

3 жыл бұрын

@@dickJohnsonpeter wtf you on about? My buddies were all taught an extremely whitewashed civil war and civil rights movement. They call the civil war the "War of Northern Aggression."

@kfcnyancat

3 жыл бұрын

@@JimJamTheAdmin Our society is manipulated to the demands of big companies, one result being how disposable everything is, true. If we didn't have "da ess jay dubya" agenda we'd just have a racist society manipulated to the demands of big companies with disposable everything.

Does he have a KZread channel where he demonstrates and teaches the “cheat sheet” recipes?

@MasonJarGaming

3 жыл бұрын

He does! Type “Dave sieg” into the search bar.

@user-sx4yu3nw4j

3 жыл бұрын

@@MasonJarGaming this is a click hole I’ll enjoy

Great video. Nice to see a passionate guy doing his thing. I wondered if that star wars scene was done with a scanamate.

oh my, I can relate to this so much, it's such a rare thing this day where nothing really has value anymore.

Schematic tips n tricks book on point... Glad someone has preserved this awesome equipment. This stuff was made to be fixed and last a lifetime.

@rubn12345

6 жыл бұрын

Beyond a lifetime!

@markarca6360

6 жыл бұрын

SOUND IN THE CITY Now you can fit 3 racks of the same equipment in a single tower PC, or a smaller one, even a laptop PC.

@WarfareHD1

6 жыл бұрын

I

The irony was when HD came about, only the old, mothballed tape to tape linear editing machines could handle it as it was too much for the fancy capture boards on the SD non-linear editing machines. Some made a killing on that. I wish it was still all analogue pot switches close to the touch, rather than options buried in software drop menus on some computer. Makes it all less impressive somehow. Hope the boards last a long time for him to enjoy his equipment.

@ryanh5568

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I think that novo-techno-philia (love/fetish-for new technology) has made people blind to the fact that technology whether it's old or new it has a use case. And with the Scanimate machine it seems to me the best aspect of it is that the operators can experiment with relatively simple analog circuitry to produce a wide array of visual effects often in real time. That part is often lost in modern digital effects. It's funny too because that's the holy grail of modern 3d effects is the ability to see within real time the results of your work rather than sending a model with some shaders to a render farm to chew on it for a night or two only to get a hint of whether or not you got the intended result. I think old analog technology is more informed by human needs (is this intuitive to the user?) than technical ones (is X faster on paper?).

this is beautiful, analog organic beauty and infinite waves to create art, i hope this never disappears and that this animation technique never dies, its beautiful, like a retro acid trip in time, please keep it alive!

Dude is wholesome and genuine as they come!

Imagine trying to figure this thing out after he dies. That's the real tragedy of stuff like this. It's going to be gone to forever.

@laustinspeiss

3 жыл бұрын

I worked closely with a Scanimate guru for a few years, and still only had 3/4 of an idea how he did what he did !

@rockytom5889

3 жыл бұрын

On the flipside, at least it's easier to figure out than modern miniaturized locked down crap. Try to dissect and put back together a modern board and have it working.

@laustinspeiss

3 жыл бұрын

@@rockytom5889 The electronics wasn’t all that complicated, just a lot of it. The trick was patching all the modifiers together to get the desired XY modulation. The other issue was ensuring repeatable thermal stability over lengthy sequences.

@laustinspeiss

3 жыл бұрын

@Ryading Panaakalantayan hehe, you must have seen a different machine than I did! Lots of docs, [mostly OEM components) but not exactly ‘well documented’ as a system in the early 80s!

@wideyxyz2271

3 жыл бұрын

Hope he is mentoring someone with the same passion as him 🙏

Omg i love this. You're not crazy

Nostalgic, inspiring ... what a guy, he really put his heart into this.

"Some People Say Im Crazy and I will never amount to anything: It's been worth it to me!". Spoken like every pioneer in their field from astronauts to scanimate man.

“That’s where the term plug in came from” ..wow didn’t even think about that

@silvermediastudio

3 жыл бұрын

ooof

Well, quite simply the best video ive ever seen on vice. Respect to David Sieg & the OG who was setting up the media centre back in the day

He is so chill. Love the anolog stuff

This is so inspiring! Thanks for sharing.

"It's been worth it to me!" And thats all that matters

He should do youtube intros :P

@whocares8735

3 жыл бұрын

KZread is gay

@SeekTn

3 жыл бұрын

@@whocares8735 no u

@tjl2836

3 жыл бұрын

@@SeekTn no u

@baukevanderkooi8712

3 жыл бұрын

Uno

@infernaldaedra

3 жыл бұрын

I'd honestly use a scanimate youtube intro I love the analogue character it has. It has so much old charm.

This machine literally creates that retro look & style that I see so many content creators fail miserably at trying to create with digital video plugins and other methods. Simply awesome.

Thank you for your work. Truly impressive given the time. I work in the same field but in the digital era.

Anyone interested in a modern day equivalent to this kind of thing should check out LZX Industrys' modular eurorack systems. I would buy one myself but they're expensive as hell.

I SO respect and admire this man and what he's all about. I wish I could go hang out with him and learn all he knows. Thanks for this story.

Bro I saw this video like two years ago and couldn't find it again after a lot of searching and today I finally got it recommended to me again. This makes me so happy

The passion he has for this equipment is amazing. So many people lack this amount of passion. And it's a shame

"The Father of the motion Graphics' Let's give it a tribute.

The nostalgia for items like this is strong.... even for someone who want personally alive in a time period. Trust me There will be folks wanting to use this machine!

What a great story. It is a gift to have a passion for something. We need people like him preserving the things that change and have changed our view of the world

Great great video! Real fun from start to finish.