Mary Jackson Pitts, Ph.D.

mpitts@astate.edu

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Post Production Editing

•      Linear Editing

–   You copy a section of the source tape and edit it to a master tape in the planned sequence.

•      Can be Analog or Digital

•      Source material cannot be accessed randomly

Single source editing

•      One VTR player and one VTR Recorder

•      Joined by an edit controller or edit controller unit.

The Editor

•      Marks and remembers frame locations on the source tape and the record tape.

•        It sets the preroll(Five Seconds)

•        Allows you to lay down video or audio or both at the same time.

•      Controls search modes (forward and back)

•      Displays elapsed time and frames

•      Simultaneously starts both machines and keeps them in sync.

 The Editor

•      Previews edits

•      Check edits after they have been made

•      Assemble and Insert Mode

•      Limited to cuts only transitions.

Multiple Source Linear Editing

•      Two Source Machines or More

•      A mechanism for transitions

–   Dissolves, wipes, and other special effects

–   Pulse count system is what we have with most of our machines

•   The other terms is control track.

–   Time Code System or address code system.

Pulse count system or control track system

•      Deals with video frames

•      And where that frame is.

•      30 frames = one second

–     01-44-23-15

•      Frames accuracy is sometimes difficult.

–   Slippage is possible.

Pulse count system or control track system

•      Rewind tape completely and zero the counter before logging or editing.

–   Speed for which some projects can be edited.

Time code address system

•      Each frame is marked with a different number and a specific address.

•      More precise than control track

•      Called the SMPTE time code.

–   SEMPTY time code

–   Society of motion picture and television engineers/European Broadcasting Union time code.