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#WorkVideo

    29-Jan-92 04:57:38
Sb: #15372-#WorkVideo
Fm: Roger Hand 73520,3506
To: Victor Hoyt 71611,41
Victor: I made two training videos — one of them thirty minutes long — without even having a VCR! The secret is this: rent time instead of buying the equipment. Look up "Video Production" in your Yellow Pages, and call the local Amiga dealer, to find editing suites that have an Amiga. Then you'll be able to edit your live video, Amiga animations, etc., onto a single master tape and dub audio over it later. Of course, you'd also be able to do any overlays or titling you'd want to do. The cost would probably be about $25 an hour, maybe a little more. If your tape is short enough that might be the way to go. To edit it piece by piece without a flying erase head would probably cost more than $25 an hour if a price could be put on frustration and mental anguish! Plus it might look more amateurish than you wanted. Remember that if you save money and cut corners on quality, you might end up with a tape that you don't even want to show to customers or clients! -Roger