[Scott Dorsey]

In article , Neil wrote:
On 2/26/2017 9:48 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

It was possible to splice DASH tapes, though, although 3M format was not
spliceable. In theory it's possible to splice Mitsubishi tapes but in
practice it's a horror.

IMO, the most practical solutions at the time were based on the video
editing system technologies of the day. By the mid 80's, DAWs started to
take over, but they were also based on video recording and editing concepts.

Video-style editing was horrible. It was better than the horror of assemble
and insert work with video because unlike video there was no generation loss.
But I have images in my head of watching two Mitsubishi machines under computer
control running in realtime copying one bar at a time from one machine to the
other for hours until... ooops, the count on the EDL was off by a note on
that edit, got to change the file and start all over from the beginning now...

It was so much easier just to cut with the razor blade.

The DAW systems actually came in at about the same time nonlinear video editing
did, which is surprising since the amount of resources needed for something
like the Video Toaster are a good bit higher than what is needed for audio.
Nonlinear editing made real video editing work much easier.

Video editing was so bad that a lot of folks shot 16mm for video finish only
because it allowed them to edit film on a flatbed instead of assembling shot
by shot with two VTRs.
--scott


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