CompuServe Messages

Chris- >>I think the Jaz drive will be fast enough, but don't quote me.<< Paul Gerhardt is pretty optimistic about it. <G> As to your editing-process, yup, that's about it. However, the interface was obviously designed by people who really don't know what editors need. Don't get me wrong–it's not unusable, and it's better than the Flyer (for control) but it still is awful imo. For example: You can't do a master-shot style edit, like just dropping an insert into a long take. Rather, you have to make a copy of the master shot (not the actual video footage on the drive, just the tag that you deal with in the editor) and trim off the end of the first one and the beginning of the second and then put the three resulting shots (Master-1, insert, Master-2) in order. And you can't set in/out points for shots, which is one of the few good things about the Flyer interface. So if you decide that you need to start 2 seconds earlier in a shot that you've already trimmed, you need to go back to the original tag (it's best to make a copy of everything at the beginning, so that you only edit copies of the original tags, at least after you trim out the real garbage, before slating and the like) and re-trim it from the start. MAJOR pain. Paul