CompuServe Messages

Thanks so much Frank for all that "explaining". My son-in-law, who produces some of the Network stuff, recently showed me a non-linear system called the "Cube" (around $50,000) which he has just bought. He does his own editing on Betacam SP. He hires crews for aquisition – also on Betacam SP. He has just the two VTR's, Source and Edit/Record. He plonks the tape given to him by his crew on to the Play VTR. He then inputs the "scenes" he wants to use into the Cube – up to about a limit of 20 minutes of stored video. He then "arranges" each scene and the sequence they should run – plus any transitions between scenes. He then presses PREVIEW… and you see the output from the Cube. If then OK, again with his Mac', he hits a key and all the stuff is recorded as a master on the Record VTR. Quick and neat. I had thought that the Flyer was a poor man's version of the Cube… or something like it. When seeing stuff at shows and demo's I tend to drift behind the equipment, and try and see the stuff they do NOT want me to see. I gain the impression that at the moment the Flyer is a board, hard disk(s).. and some software. It does not appear to be a working system. All the best, Hilary