re stand alone editing suite in article qvkaeinngat shelley u washington edu eylerken stein u washington edu ken eyler writes i need some help we are upgrading our animation video editing stand we are looking into the different type of setups for a b roll and a cuts only station we would like this to be controlled by a computer brand doesnt matter but maybe mac or amiga low end to high end system setups would be very helpful if you have a system or use a system that might be of use could you mail me your system requirements what it is used for and all the hardware and software that will be necessary to set the system up if you need more info you can mail me at eylerken u washington edu thanks in advance ken eylerken u washington edu here at lewis and clark college we have recently installed a digital film system based on the mac quadra that does non linear full digital editing if you re considering such a system here are the pros and cons for the educational environment this system is excellent we use it to produce a variety of educational materials for disemination on our local network because this programming is going to be viewed on other macs the image quality is not as important as the ability to directly export the video to the net we also use it to produce orientiation and promotional video programs for use by the lewis clark community since these programs are not meant for commercial or broadcast use image quality is not critical the digital film system for those of you who are uninitiated is an a b roll digitizing system on one jpeg compression card it was promoted as an inexpensive online editing system with svhs quality supermac the maker of the card is trying to achieve this quality level but as yet has been unable to deliver our system produces near vhs quality at fields per second x overscan the card repeats every other field to get fields per second this results in a kind of super film look that some find distracting if you can get past this problem you ll find the adobe premier editing software quite enjoyable with which to work it produces thousands of different effects from crystalize filters to dve transitions to color matting because of its non linear nature editing is fast and easy if you ve ever used or seen used an avid or montage system you ll recognize the methodology and the user interface the total system with quadra megs of ram gig drive apple mon itor panasonic svhs edit deck audio gear cassette cd eq mixer etc composite monitor digital film card will set you back about for you video cowboys and girls this system will not output at a quality that will satisfy most of your clients even though you can perform more effects than a toasterhead can imagine an amiga based off line based system will look better we use both macs and amigas for our video work each for what each does best dan snodgrass media services lewis clark college portland
