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From: nose@nbires.UUCP (Steve Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: VHS videotape editing?
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 13:34:50 EST
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Canon makes an "editing controller" for connecting 2 of its VR30
or VR40 portable recorders. These recorders can be bought without tuners.
Anyway I don't really know all that much about the controller except I
don't believe it can preview edits. The recorders are not capable of truly
clean edits however I tested and found that you could assembly edit with
a glitch that was only barely noticible.
     I own a "industrial" JVC VHS editing system.  This is rather expensive
but allows clean assembly and insert editing, as well as previewing of
edits and various other nice features.  You can rent such systems for
20 to 50 bucks per hour. Look in the yellow pages under "Video
Production Services."  Also if you work for any sort of large company, they
may well have such systems. You might be able to arrange to use them after
hours.
     If I remember right the application was a "video slide show"
I know my system will not do precisely timed edits at other than normal
speed (I'm not sure about the cannon) however this should be sufficient.
If you have say a 30 sec of each slide on tape you could assemble a sequence
of exactly timed segments of each to get your slide show. You can't do
fades either but most cameras can do that. You could record the whole thing
in the camera optionally fading in and out for each slide.
Stopping and starting the recorder between slides would cause minor glitches
but this would be the cheapest and easiest way to go.  You could then use the
"audio dub" feature found on many recorders to add music or narration.