Good god... I am making an AMV using that setup right now, CnC, using the insert method... It's hella hard...MistyCaldwell wrote:Two VCR method?
My older videos were made with a professional linear set up.
That includes 2 decks (vcr or beta like I used) a shuttle bus (that is your controller for both decks) a time base corrector to line up the tapes to the edit point, and a patch bay that hooks up your monitor and decks.
You had two main types of edit styles, assemble and Insert edit. To assemblel, you would set your in-point on the master and record tape, and you could preview to make sure you had a correct edit...or you could believe in yourself and do the edit without checking. Your master happened real time
To insert edit, you would do the same as above but make sure you set an out-point and it would end at the right part...as long as it didn't choke and screw up with the time base correction.
That is the real reason you used to have to put 15 seconds of black ahead of your original start point. The corrector has to go back anywhere from 3 to 15 seconds and rewinds the tape before the edit point. If you have a break in your black track, you are really screwed and have to redo your black altogether.
To lay audio, you would do much the same as the two vcr method, using only your audio channels and you would often lay the audio and black together. That would prevent bad things like black breaks....because if there is one in the middle and you have editied your video up to that point...you pretty much have a problem on your hands. It can be fixed but since I am talking a dinosaur language as it is....I'll spare you the details.
I have to say, that through this expirence, that I respect the older members of the org a LOT more....
... And I mean, you can't even do a fucking fade.. And you look at the more high tech vids today.. Maybe like.. Euphoria.. and it makes you think.. "If Koop had to use this method, he'd still be working on Rei-Mix."
And then you go into feeling athat the newer ways are stupid and have no story to them... And are just meant to be flashy..(Not saying that Koop's vids don't have story).
I remember there being some thought process on me making a point... But I don't remember what that point was... -slaps head against monitor-