GoVideo GV8050 manual Videotape Editing, Preparing an Automatic Assembly Edit List

Videotape

Editing

Tip:

You will get the best quality during Automatic Assembly Editing by recording your 8mm tape at SP speed.

With your 8mm/VHS Dual-Deck VCR, you can edit your 8mm tapes onto VHS tapes quickly and easily. Your editing may be as complicated as shooting many scenes, reviewing the tape, deciding on a final format and putting it back together, or as simple as removing unwanted scenes from your camcorder recording.

Professional videotape editors perform two types of edits: Assembly Editing and Insert Editing.

Automatic Assembly Editing with Your 8mm/VHS Dual-Deck VCR

Assembly editing involves laying down a series of scenes, one after another, from a source tape or tapes onto another videotape. In an Assembly Edit, the entire contents of the source tape are copied onto the target tape, for each scene. The 8mm/VHS Dual-Deck VCR’s Automatic Assembly Editing feature performs assembly editing for you. All you do is mark the beginning and end of each scene on your source tape, press the Copy Tape key, and your Dual-Deck VCR does the rest!

Preparing an Automatic Assembly Edit List

The key to making clean edits easily is planning. Using the playback mode of the 8mm deck, review the 8mm tape from which you want to copy.

First, rewind the 8mm tape all the way to beginning, and press the Reset key on your remote control. This resets the Tape Counter to zero. Every time you re-insert that tape into your Dual-Deck VCR, reset the Tape Counter to zero at the beginning of the tape. This way, you will have consistent Tape Counter readings when you look for a particular scene.

Next, review your 8mm tape, using the Play, Pause, and Rewind keys. Think of the action on the tape in terms of scenes, or segments. As you review the tape, decide which segments you want to leave in the final copy, and which seg- ments you want to delete from the final copy. Also, think about whether you want to rearrange the order of some scenes. You can do this easily with the 8mm/VHS Dual-Deck VCR.

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