#Flyer Brochure
Fred,
"Unlimited capacity" NLE facilities will have tech run all the reels in
that are part of an edit session, with each reel just being a super long
clip. The editor-producer-director team then usually do an "off line"
where the actual clips are created, usually in rough form leaving extra
stuff at the head and tail of each clip. From the rough-cut tape or
window dub, the next refinement is made, the clips (or portions that will
be used) get trimmed, in the EDL and then the answer copy is made. After
a last refinement, the final EDL is used to make the master. Now, all
the original video may be still on the digital media. The clips mearely
name segements of it (e.g designate either fields or frames [depending on
NLE 'resolution']) for the sake of providing the operator and software a
handle for communicating what goes where in the EDL.
I think, if you load up a flyer with 21 9 GB HDs, (189 GB total) you might
be able to get a few 30 minute tapes entirely in the system. But the
flyer is targetted at us "low end guys". So to make efficient use of the
probably 2 1 GB or 2 3GB disks we are likely to try to slide by with, they
are probably assuming that we will load in only the enlarged clips we want
to work with – essentially start the digital processes at the rough-cut
clip location, and our first edit session will be to trim those down, a
feature I saw demoed at NAB. (Essentially double click the clip crouton
and you see the start and stop time in requesters where you can enter
trimmed values.)
The telling tale will be this: Will the Flyer allow you to break a long
clip into several smaller ones, not necessarily covering all the time of
the larger clip, possibly overlapping frames included in different clips,
and allow trimming by use of +/- times as well as absolute times. My
guess is that it will, otherwise they would have a VERY hard time
convincing anyone that it is non-linear.
wmc – via Autopilot!