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No, not flippant at all. Just trying to figure out what you're doing. 🙂
W/O a flying erase VCR I fear that you will not be satisfied with the
results. Best way is to try it. I know that before I got a VCR with the
flying erase head controls I was unhappy with the video garbage at each new
section of the tape.
What happens to your tape when you are recording, hit pause, and then
release pause? Do you get garbage at the 'pause' point? If not, then
maybe you could have all the computer/video stuff ready for splicing, and
then do the entire tape in one 'take'? (ie. without ever bringing it out
of record mode; just use pause)
You'd still have the problem of dubbing the audio, unless you recorded that
as you went along. Couldn't have any dialog or music over a transition
point (pause point), but I guess it could be done. Unless your VCR is
capable of overdubbing the audio you'll have that problem no matter what
though.
W/O a genlock you are not going to be able to put any 'pointers', 'text',
etc over your live video. 🙁 Maybe you could show a still or anim of the
machinery, with the pointers/text, and then just show some live video of
the same machine (sans pointers/text)?
Good luck. It's certainly possible to create pretty da** good looking
tapes of the type you want w/o tons of video equip. Lot's of fun too! I'd
encourage you to try.
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