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=Compact Video Systems Inc.(media corporation)=

= Compact Video Systems, Inc.(Compact Video) = Compact Video Systems, Inc. Robert E. Seidenglanz in 1978 began solving broadcast television technology interfacing with high efficiencies up until founding Compact Video in 1971. Compact Video changed television forever as it took the highest broadcast quality camera's and recorder's out of studios onto locations for a fraction of the costs 1/40 increased speed and efficiencies of video production by 500%. Case in point for producer director Marty Pasetta shot 21 locations in New York including actors singers dancers and host and a full compliment of studio technology all packaged wired together like multiple apps in an iPhone for see of use for complex scenes. Marty directed and produced live and near live TV (Oscars) awards and musical television specials. XXIncreased the speed of production time through their development of electronic video editing over filmXX was a television and motion picture broadcast company that provided videotape production and post-productions services to major studios and producers worldwide.

Compact Video Systems pioneered the mobile location production vehicles that were fully equipped with broadcast cameras, two-inch format VTR’s, editing suite and mixing console, and an integrated system of switching, audio, monitoring intercommunications and terminal equipments, which had been developed and installed by RTS Systems.

Compact Video revolutionized the production of broadcast entertainment with its proprietary facilities for top work specials, major TV series, remote segments all over the world and produce high quality sports drama, news, outdoor segments of musical specials, and commercials.

Compact Video changed television forever as it took television production out of the studio and gave moviemakers a practical set of tools that substantially increased the speed of production time through their development of electronic video editing over film.

History
In 1966, Robert Seidenglanz  was hands on involved on several filmed TV shows all done at major studios, as well as a motion picture, Tobruk, a Universal feature with the special effects team on location with the Howard Anderson Company. He then worked on ABC Wide World of Sports (1 of 11 permanently assigned to the WWS engineering staff out of 700 engineers), then later, many TV shows on video including Laugh In, Steve Allen and ABC's Operation Entertainment (a weekly 1 hour primetime special lasting a year and a half which entertained our servicemen, many who were already gravely injured, all videotaped on American Military bases stateside during Vietnam!).

"In 1970, he left ABC's Wide World of Sports and went to work on what he knew to be a better idea. As an experienced television engineer, he understod the superior nature of video tape over film in the television industry. He also understood its drawbacks. To shoot video tape required a 40-foot trailer jammed with video equipment, a 15-man crew and a day's setup time. It was costly and cumbersome. Seidenglanz knew there was a lot of room for improvement and that is what he set out to prove just over 10 years ago in his Burbank garage. What emerged from those efforts was Compact Video Systems, Inc." Then in 1970-71, Compact Video Inc. is founded and hits the road, soon establishing a legacy as the most trusted partner for the top content owners. From concept to Prime Time Television!

In 1973, Compact Video expands their mobile video production having developed camera equipment suitable for use on an airplane, helicopter, and underwater. making television production portable, efficient, and cost-effective. On location globally, for example To China in 2 days notice/ Air to air, Helicopter, Underwater, Compact made TV outdoors portable and practical.

In 1979 - Compact Video's 7 story, 165,000 sq. ft. Post Production & Satellite Park Compact built the first high rise in Burbank. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. acted as financial advisors to Compact Video and introduced Compact to the founders of ESPN (father and son). Compact helps write and present an ESPN business plan to Getty Oil. From this plan, the founders raised $85 million to fund ESPN. Compact received a $15 million contract to build ESPN's Bristol, CT studio, satellite operations, and five mobile units.Compact Video built the first full mobile broadcast studio to be used by Getty Oil's new sports network for cable TV, ESPN. Compact Video Systems acquires Image Transform, Inc. (Cantor, Fitzgerald & Co., Inc. acted as financial advisors to Compact) which has created Real Time Image Enhancement (used extensively by NASA, particularly in the transmission of television pictures from space).

Innovation
For much of its early life, the company concentrated on building and renting out its mobile systems, and operating the first computerized electronic post-production videotape editing facility, built in 1974. " Employees 450 {cite|LATimes Compact Video Is No Longer Simply A TV Road Shoq" Alexander Auerback}

"First it rents out video tape trucks and crews to shoot commericals and variety shows. Second, it manufactures and sells compact and efficient monile tape facilities for up to $3 million and fixed television studios for up to $10 million. Third, it owns postproduction facilities where tapes shot by Compact Video or anyone else, can be edited, dubbed, or colored." {cite: Extensions of Remarks}

"With the miniturized equipment he and his staff build, Seidenglanz operation can make a show, he says, in a tenth the time of filmed TV. And he says that, with tape rather than film, a TV show can be edited in a day, instead of four weeks it ordinarily takes. They've developed what they call "computerized editing", which enables them to put scenes together in a few minutes...Each truck has a crew of from three to seven men, depending on the need. That's opposed to a typical film crew of between 20 and 40 people. When they did a recent CBS show, Amateur's Guide To Love, Compact Video used a three-man crew. Seidenglanz says that CBS told them the couldn't have done the show for anywhere near the same price using a film crew".

"After a public offering a year ago, Compact Video acquired two companies, Image Transform Inc, which converts color-TV images into motion-picture film. Biller says the new subsidiary's proprietary technolog, which both suppresses "noise" or intereference andenhances the basic color signal, produces electronicall fenerated 35 mm film that is suitable for theatrical release. 'If Compact Video is a labratory, Image Transform is a hospital...It can save a shot (using enhancement and correction techniques) where other might give up'... The firm has also developed a new recording system which "virtually doiubles the resolution capability of video" according to Biller Resolition is a measurement of the ability to record fine detail... The quality increase in film has been about 10% during the last 30 years. Video doubled in quality during the last five years, will double again in the next five, and again in the five after that, he believes. That combined with other new technologies such as transmission of video signal by satellite and optical fibers, will make for radical changes in entertainment and in education programming."

"The differences stems from the fact that video tape cameras transmit images into electerical signals that are recorded on tape. And just like the tape recorder at home, this tape can be played back immediately. That is why televised sporting events can offer truly "instant" replays. "The advantage of videotape? In a word, immediacy" said Greg Biller, managing director of Compact Video Systems, Inc one of the leaders in advancing video tape technology. "There's no question about waiting for the flm to be processed to see if the shot came out right. You've either got it or you don't. The producer saves money because there is no film processing expense, there is no time wasted on shooting a scene over again for protection, and there's potentially less time spent editing. If mre than one camera is being used at once, a scene cane actually be edited together as it is being shot. Otherwise, the raw footage can be taken into a videotape studio and edited by computer, complete with fadeouts, disoolves and other special effects.

Bob Seidenglanz the engineering whiz who is president and founder of COmpact Video said his firm has edited a 90-minute program in as littler as six hours - an unheard of accomplishment for a film project where an editor still has to splice each piece of celliuloid together by hand."

Michael L Welsbarth, vice-president of sales for Videotronics Co Inc one of the largest videotape facilitie on the West Coast said it is no longer just an engineer's medium. Set technicians have learned how to light for tape to softer the hard, cold look it can give. Lenses have been adapted from film cameras to provide more phtoographic variety. Cameras have been made less bulku and the editing procress has been refined even as it's been made speedier. One of the biggest prblems in the past was that video tape cameras were unwieldly in size and were of little use outside a studio because unlike a film caera which is self-contained, they always had to be connected by cored to a recording device. They still do but hwat Seidenglanz and other have done is reduce the size of both the caemra and electronic gadgetry that goes with it so the system is highly monile. At the same time they have managed to improve the quality of the picture."

Camera-Truck
The firm develops the mobile camera trucks systems ranging from pickup trucks to 20-foot vans to a their largest rig, the Eight-Camera System on a tractor-trailer, all of which carried the sophisticated graphics, slow-motion, and recording equipment only available in studios at the time. Compact Video's electronic engineers and technicians adapted studio equipment to the vibrating environment of a truck. Having to design products from scratch, items were built in-house, modified to install studio equipment such as audio mixing consoles for recording music, or mobile electric generators for location shooting to a truck.

Control room to be set up directly on a stage or remote location thereby eliminating the need for production personnel to walk to and from the truck to the stage or shooting area, thus increasing efficiency in the use of facility time. Mounted on a more sophisticated eight-camera mobile truck, intercom systems that link producer, director, camera operators, and technicians connecting between 40 -50 personnel through a computerized switchboard. Trucks fully equipped to make taped TV on location anywhere. Seidenglanz operation can make a show in a tenth the time of filmed TV with tape rather than film, a TV show can be edited in a day, instead of four weeks it ordinarily takes. Each truck has a crew of three to seven men, depending on the need. That opposed to a typical film crew of between 20 and 40 people.” The trucks later evolved to include a portable earth station with a folding 15-foot dish antenna that can transmit and receive via communications satellites.

Resolution
Compact Video System is based on 525 lines and a 4:3 aspect ration,but with chrominance seperated from luminance, in terms of freqyency and luminance and horizontal bandwidths increased. Vertical resolution would remain determined by the 525 linesin the raster. “The firm has also developed a new recording system which "virtually doubles the resolution capability of video." according to Biller. Resolution is a measurement of the ability to record fine detail.” [Compact Video Is No Longer Simply A TV Road Show]

Post-Production Facility
Compact Video manufactures, services, and supplies videotape hardware and with processing of the information in post-production. “Compact Video acquired two companies at a public offering in 1979, Image Transform Inc. whose proprietary technology converts color-TV images into motion-picture film while suppressing interference and enhancing the basic color signal. Together Compact Video and ImageTransform processes produce electronically generated 35mm film suitable for theatrical release.” [Compact Video Is No Longer Simply A TV Road Show https://www.newspapers.com/image/165602115]RTS Systems, the second acquisition, provides the hardware that makes the radical change in entertainment and educational programming.

Products
Compact Video provided complete audio studio construction, portable microwave equipment and support, production equipment, and post-production service, radio and television studio design, videotape/film recording transfer, emergency power equipment, mobile van construction, facility turnkey installation, mobile satellite earth stations. Compact Video Systems, Inc. offered several systems for video production: Three Camera System, Two Camera System, One Camera System, PCP-90C Camera System, Studio Pak, 625 European, Imagematt, 655 Line/24 Frame Tape-to-Film Transfer (The Invisible Man). They also developed and offered services of the following: V. RF T/Transmitting/ Receiving Equipment, Microwave Equipment (intercity, portable, ENG, airborne, supports, portable equipment), Satellite Earth Stations ( transmit/receive, receive only, mobile), Equipment Rental Services (production equipment, post-production equipment), Facility Turn Key Installation, Mobile Van Construction, Post-Production Services(video, audio, film)

Notable Clients
"Seidenglanz' trucks have filmed dozens of commercials, segments of many local Los Angeles shows, large hunks of the Julie Andrews Show upcoming specials starring Elvis Preseley, an NBC special called Up With People, and many more". "Compact Video designed and installed a satellite broadcast center in Conneticut for ESPN. Compact received a $15 million contract to build ESPN's Bristol, CT studio, satellite operations, and five mobile units.” Compact Video in collaboration with Image Transfer, Inc. create Real Time Image Enhancement that is used extensively by NASA, particularly in the transmission of television pictures from space.

Noteworthy Events
1. a Richard Pryor, live in concert ‡h [videorecording] / ‡c Bill Sargent presents a Hillard Elkins-Steve Blauner production ; See Theatre Network in association with Compact Video Systems, inc. ; produced by Del Jack and J. Mark Travis ; directed by Jeff Margolis.

2. September 7, 1979…ESPN Debuts. On September 7, 1979 at 7:00 p.m. EST, an estimated 30,000 viewers tuned in to witness the launch of The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network…ESPN. Here, at the link, is the welcoming message and the start of the first Sports Center telecast with anchors Lee Leonard and George Grande. The first score Grande announced was Chris Evert’s victory over Billie Jean King at the US Open. Sports Center lasted a half-hour, consisting mainly of videotaped highlights and following its conclusion that night, the network aired a slow-pitch softball game along with other programming, including wrestling and college soccer. As ESPN grew, so did our cable bills, but that’s another story for another time. In the photos, we see a studio shot from those early days with Norelco PC70s, a camera op with some great buns and ESPN’s first truck. That first mobile unit was called 140 and is shown here at Compact Video in Burbank in a photo sent to us by David Sturtevant. Enjoy and share! – Bobby Ellerbee. This Truck was Built in Burbank Ca by Compact Video Systems the Orginal Fleet was units 140-240 and 127-227-327 140 and 240 were the same as the Above Picture and the 27ft trucks were like this picture Below this unit is 127 after it was Sold by ESPN

3. 31 Kenny, three legs the real Artoo with radio control. In March, 1976, the production unit moved into Tozeur in the South of Tunisia, to begin the transformation of desert into desert (from a different galaxy), and construction of massive Jawa transport vehicles. The Algerian army caught sight of these massive props and thought they were real! After eight weeks of preparation the filming started. During the first week the entire crew had to wear sand goggles due to a big sandstorm. The filming lasted two-and-a-half weeks on location before moving to Elstree for the next 141/2 weeks, where all nine sound stages were filled with John Barry's 30 sets. Planets, starships, caves, control rooms, cantinas and a vast network of corridors from inside the Death Star were at Elstree — but the Alliance's secret hangar full of X-wing and Y-wing fighters had to be built at Shepparton Studios, because it was the only place in Europe big enough! When on location all the robots had to be cleaned every day the sand and salt got in everywhere! One problem arose with the radio control systems because of static-charged windborne sand particles present in the Sahara; an extra aerial wire had to be attached to Artoo. Also being miles from nowhere the internal batteries had to be charged from mobile generators, which also had to be maintained. Trying to keep track of up to 30 sets of batteries is guaranteed to give anyone a twitch! Artoo and company were operated by John Stears and his crew, with Dick Hewitt (of Compact Video Systems) supervising the electronics.

Awards
Charles F Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award at the 62nd Engineer's Emmy Awards in 2010 to Robert E Seidenglanz for his invention of the ENG news truck.