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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

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      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.