Herb Dow and the Non-Linear Revolution

In the early 1980s, editor Herb Dow, ACE was cutting TV shows for executive producer David Gerber on the Culver City lot. “It was heaven,” says Dow. “I had a corner office with a big picture window, my assistant in another room, my car parked outside.” He moved to Universal, where he found himself in a small windowless room, working on a show that drove him to distraction. The combination pushed him to tell the head of post production he’d had enough and was quitting. “He told me they were doing a new show, ‘Still The Beaver,’ in the Oakwood Apartments on this new editing machine called VidiCut,” recalls Dow. “And he asked me if I’d be interested – and I said, sure.”.

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