#editting devices
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You must remember though that Video Director works with many edit controllers
and has drivers to accomplish this through the com port. So although the
product ships with a lanc/ir cable, it is not limited to that as the only
control over VCR's. Drivers included with V 2.0 include such as editlink,
visca, and vuport. The editlink driver is designed for use with FutureVideo's
control, and ie. others for Sony products etc. Also, as I read it, Video
Director will do frame-accurate edits if your deck is capable of that
precision. Video Director has lots of plus marks for its ability to catalog
tapes and clips too. Whatever you might say about it, version 2.0 is up to
speed, including titles, animation playback to video, sound overlays, use of
.avi files and a host of other features that can produce videos with WOW
factors. Video Director does depend on what other hardware you have installed
but even so it is flexible enough that you can work with it even if you want to
upgrade your hardware later. Of interest you might note that if you have a
Video Toaster, you can also connect that to your PC and access transitions,
titles, and framestores from there. You can also sync sound to video clips from
CD-Rom, Midi, or .Wav files. I guess this just demonstrates that upgrade
software releases are not always just a mechanism to generate more income to
the vendor, in many cases they are leaps forward in computing power. One last
note, Video Director supports time code if your video deck has it available.
What say we more !!!
Dave:
>You must remember though that Video Director works with many edit controllers
and has drivers to accomplish this through the com port.<
Okay, that's true–but that means you have to buy "more stuff" (to quote George
Carlin <g>) to make it work w/your particular non-LANC setup.
>Also, as I read it, Video Director will do frame-accurate edits if your deck
is capable of that precision.<
I don't know–can a device that uses your IR remote controls to your record
deck *really* be frame-accurate? Seems a bit slipshod to me for higher-end
use…
>Whatever you might say about it, version 2.0 is up to speed, including titles,
animation playback to video, sound overlays, use of .avi files and a host of
other features that can produce videos with WOW factors.<
Yes, provided you already have the computer hardware in place to do them
anyway, like genlock and sound cards–the Video Director doesn't come with that
capability in and of itself. Most of these cards already come with software
capable of doing that bundled with them…
Sorry, I'm not trying to be negative here–for $200, it *is* a good
consumer-level edit controller and doesn't require a superpowered computer to
run it. And you're right about the logging capabilities, too. OTOH, my results
with it (Sony TR-400 w/LANC for source, Panasonic AG-1960 for my record deck,
and at the time, no genlock card) didn't suggest much more than a
straightforward tape cutter.
Tim