MP4 Video Editor

SCVJeff wrote:

Gdetrailer wrote:
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Yeah, I did work in a old school video recording/editing studio for a while.. Was cool working with commercial 1" (open real) and 3/4" video tape equipment :B.. Was "state of the art" back in the mid 1980s..

Describing wrappers vs. content is something probably for the A/V Forums..

So: 1".. Type A, B, or C ? I think by the mid 80's Type A & B had already died off

"C", Can't remember the model numbers but they were Sony full editing machines. Three Sony machines (two for source and one as record), had separate TBCs and a master clock to hold the sync between. They also had several 3/4 umatics, several 1/2" Panasonic Pro VHS and several 1/2" Sony Beta Pro machines that could be called up (those were not tied directly to the editor but we could patch them to one of the 1" machines and dub the video to 1" for editing as needed).

That was just one of three A/V editing suites they had, the other editing suites were 3/4" umatics.. And we also had a single audio only editing suite which had several professional Akia 10" reel to reels.. We could patch audio from any of the video editing suites to the audio only suite if needed.

Wished I had taken a few pix of the setup, pretty nice to work with that equipment fresh out of Tech school.. Was my job to service, maintain and repair the equipment as needed..

The studio I worked in was a very large private business that video taped programs mainly for the different business units they owned, but we even did some broadcast quality commercials for several local TV channels and even edited down a full half hr TV show for a national broadcaster as a concept. That show never was broadcast but it was fun to see just how it was put together.

Also had a nice in house studio where we could tape anything we needed plus had portable 1" and 3/4" machines for our field teams to take to the factory or where ever they need to go..

Used some nice Ikgemi cameras for in studio and even for field use, had to learn to test and properly set them up every time the field equipment came back.. Always a fair chance of needing some adjustments after getting bumped around..

That private studio back them would have had around half a million $ or a bit more in equipment and it was Broadcast SD in quality.. Blows my mind that now days folks are able to hold in their hands video equipment that can surpass SD broadcast quality and go right to full HD and cost less than $500.. And for a bit more be at HD broadcast quality!