CompuServe Messages

Mike: >Well for what it is worth here is my 2 cents worth.< Good to see ya again! 🙂 Thanks for your thoughts on this issue… >This way you could digitize in high compression and get the time saving assets of working NLE. Then you could go back to tape for your final assemble of the tape. I see this as the only solution for those folks that work on long projects such as weddings.< So you're suggesting using non-linear for offline/workprint editing, and then doing your final cut w/linear editing, right? I assume you'd also time-code your raw footage so that you can generate an EDL… >Now I know that some folks will say that video contains to much information. You just can't compress it enough without quality loss to make it truly managable. My answer to that is that…< Somehow, I doubt anyone on THIS forum would say that! <g> As other folks on this forum have already pointed out to me, professional systems already use digitized footage. Maybe it's less that the compression will get better, than it is that the hard drive sizes/throughput speeds will get better… Best, Tim