EDITING WITHOUT AN EDITING VIDEO TAPE RECORDER
Stop Edits
Pause Edits
Recording Something Over
HOW VCRS EDIT
Nonediting VCRs
Electronic Editing VCRs
ASSEMBLE EDITING
INSERT EDITING
An Important Technical Difference Between Insert and Assemble Edits
Video Insert Only
Audio Insert Only
Editing multiple audio
Professional VHS or SVHS VCRs With Two Independent Audio Channels
Digital and Four Channel VCRs
Hi-Fi VCRs
EDITING AUDIO TAPE
Room Tone
EDITING FROM ANOTHER VIDEO TAPE
How to Do It
Home VCRs.
Industrial and Professional VCRs.
EDITOR CONTROLLERS
TYPES OF TIME CODE
Control Track Counters
SMPTE Time Code
Drop frame and non-drop frame.
Connecting SMPTE Time Code Devices
LTC and VITC
ORGANIZING THE EDIT PROCESS
EDITING SOUND OR PICTURE FIRST
A/B ROLLS
A/B Roll Without a Second VCP
ON-LINE AND OFF-LINE EDITING
COMPUTERIZED EDITING
Non-Linear Editors
A STEP-BY-STEP NON-LINEAR EDITING SESSION
Video Capture
Digitizing Your Clips
Clip Bins and Databases
Assembling Clips on the Timeline
Printing to Tape
Compression Decisions
MPEG-2 for Editing
Non-linear Editing Is Not for Everybody
SHOOTING FOR THE EDIT
EDITING AN INTERVIEW
TRANSITIONS
Jump Cut
Cutaways and Cover Shots
Disparate Light Levels
Walk-Past
Blank Surface
Swish Pan
Defocus-Focus
Leading the Action
180° Rule
Continuity
Pacing
WHEN YOU'RE FINISHED EDITING
COMMON VIDEO TAPE EDITING PROBLEMS AND CURES
Practices to Avoid While Linear Editing
Other Glitches and Gremlins

 

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