| Digital Editing | Tape Editing |
|---|---|
| 1) Same quality in, same quality out. | 1) Tape generation quality loss. |
| 2) No tape rewind or fast-forward time, instant access anywhere in the video. | 2) Constant tape rewind and fast-forwarding eats up valuable studio time and wears out equipment. |
| 3) Your "reel" can be assembled in any order. | 3) Your "reel" is built from start to finish. |
| 4) Instantly change or add to your video as many times as you like, 2 days or 6 months later, without lossing quality or paying to redo the entire project. | 4) To change or add to your video, you lose quality and spend money to redo the entire project. |
We have designed our system for the video professional who wants to edit the same way he captures his footage, in the component domain. To acheive this, we use three on-board digitzers for Beta SP, utilizing a seperate path for each component of Y, R-y, and B-y. This is true Betacam SP broadcast quality, unlike other systems that use add-on options for Beta SP. These add-on options simply transcode to and from S-Video, and therefore, are only as good as S-Video.
Our workstation utilizes the award winning Raytheon output devices to achieve broadcast quality output and conforms to CCIR601 broadcast standards with a digital resolutions of 720 X 480 (NTSC) and 720 X 576 (PAL). Output was designed for network broadcasts such as CBS, NBC, ABC, TBN. Capture and playback is a full 60 fields per second (50 fields per second PAL) including transitions and Character Generation. To accomodate a wide range of users, we also have S-Video and composite inputs and outputs.
We allow you to choose the quality level you wish to maintain and then automatically vary compression ratio as necessary to maintain that quality level. Our capture board may compress a totally black screen 30:1 to save drive space, but as the density of the picture increases, in order to maintain the "QUALITY LEVEL" you've requested, you will watch the compression ratio come up 5:1, 4:1, 3:1 etc. . This compression scheme gives you maximum efficiency in the use of your valuable hard drive space.
Our system is capable of transferring data from a hard drive at speeds faster than the fastest currently available hard drives. As faster drives become available this system is capable of taking full advantage of them. We also include raid systems to increase the performance of hard drives.
Our software packaged gives you full edit decision list, source list, and visual timeline capability along with the following editing and processing features:
- DIGITAL VIDEO EFFECTS
- Create wipes, fades, dissolves, 2-D, and 3-D effects, picture-in-picture with movement, wraps, morphs, and much more. Speed and direction of transitions is controlled by the user.
- CHARACTER GENERATION
- Character generation features include use of any Outline Type or True Type font in any color, with full control over outline, shadow and alpha levels. On-screen movement can be defined through line or spline layout with full control over speed and alpha levels.
- IMAGE PROCESSING
- Instant access to any frame means you can modify video on a frame-by-frame bases. Add special effects, touch up shooting mistakes, or convert frames to standard image formats. Our editing software is fully compatible with other outstanding image processing software available for Mac, IBM, Windows and Amiga. Yes we support all these operating systems. No other machine on the market can do all this and at professionals speeds! Seeing is believing.
- SINGLE FRAME ANIMATION
- Replace your single-frame controller and single-frame recorder for instant playback and editing of your rendered animations.
- TIME LAPSE
- Capture frames at any rate from real-time (30fps/25fps) to hours for blooming flowers, speeding traffic, rolling clouds, etc.
- STOP MOTION
- The ability to record one frame at a time allows capture of "claymation" style productions.
- SLOW MOTION
- Three speeds are supported: half, two-fifths, and one-third.
- REVERSE
- Play any clip backward including reverse slow motion.
- TIME COMPRESSION / EXPANSION
- Fit your video into any time slot. Incredible!
- GAMMA CONTROL
- Complete graphic control to retarget colors for Y, B-y, R-y allows unlimited effects you create negative, black & white, posterazation, turn blues into greens etc.
While DAVID is very comfortable in an off-line editing environment, many of our clients prefer to save time by eliminating the auto-assembly mode by editing at full broadcast resolution. When editing with DAVID, you can see results instantly. Silicon implementation of JPEG technology allows compression and decompression of your video in real time, to and from your hard drive. You can gain immediate access to a single point in any scene in your project. MPEG or Quick Time Movie based systems that require rendering of clips after every edit prior to viewing, with DAVID, each field is compressed independently allowing random access to any frame. No more fast-forward or rewind delays! Taking this concept further, you can construct an edit decision list (EDL) and play it back in real time. Your editing decisions become reality in seconds instead of hours because there is no need to re-record your video from an EDL. And if you don't like it, no problem; modify the edit decision list and play it again. You can trim or even cut scenes from your edit decision list without removing any of the original video from the hard drive. If you want to take a scene out of the middle of your production, you can replace it with another or close the gap with the touch of a button and when your finished your ready to go to AIR! All this is possible with "DAVID," our on-line digital editor.
This is just a short list of the capabilities of the DAVID system.All these exceptional features are normally found only as very expensive add-ons to systems costing over $150,000. DAVID, however, can be set up to meet all your editing needs for the price of a new car.