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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: VHS videotape editing?
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Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 11:09:13 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 27 11:09:13 1985
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> Is there any consumer hardware available for editing VHS video tapes?
> I know there is some (very expensive) available for industrial videotape
> (i.e. the wider tape).  I would like to have two tape player/recorders
> (actually one player and one recorder would work, but it isn't all that
> common to find the player and the recorder decoupled in consumer units)
> and be able to tell the thing I want to take frames x to y from unit one
> and put them on unit two starting right here.  I would also like to be able
> to take a freeze frame from unit 1 and have it recorded on frames x to y
> on unit 2.  Maybe this request is a bit too much toward a solution than 
> a statement of the problem.

Editing machines are currently made for VHS that are as complex as the
UMATIC machines.  We've got one, I think it's made by Panasonic.  I
can't get to where it is stored right now to check it.

-Ron