A Versatile System for the Automation of Video-Tape Editing

Ken P. Davies

The system has the capability of assembling complete program segments automatically from a random collection of raw footage, such as is frequently obtained when a single camera has been employed to record on a shot-by-shot basis, a commonplace in the motion-picture industry. The system incorporates automatic frame-location circuitry; completely automatic circuitry for edit-point control, both audio and video; automatic dissolving facilities, with frame accuracy over a very wide range of dissolve rates; and the capacity for synchronizing audio with video. Provision is also made for machine language input and machine language logging of system operations, with printout of a hand-copy log. The system may be completely preprogramed, leaving the operator free to tend to quality-control monitoring.

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Published
1970-03
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J13608