Reels on Wheels

Like a lot of Videomaker readers, Doctor Brevator Creech is a video hobbyist. When he isn't performing a facelift on one of his patients, the plastic surgeon can often be found at home in his editing suite performing the same procedure on his video footage.

A man of many interests, Dr. Creech is never short on video projects to rearrange and touch up. In the mid 1980s, he was part of a rock-and-roll band called the Almond (pronounced air-mund) City Jammin' Band. When the band played at a local rock festival, he had two camera-wielding friends tape the performance and some backstage hobnobbing with such notable artists as Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald. In his editing suite, he combined this footage with a studio audio recording of his band to produce an enjoyable, fast-paced music video.

His editing system is a cuts-only VHS setup that consists mainly of two venerable Panasonic AG-6500 industrial VHS decks controlled by a Panasonic AG-650 edit controller. Wisely, he uses a time-base corrector (a piece of equipment that many video enthusiasts mistakenly overlook) to steady the playback deck's video signal for editing and duplication. His system also includes a Sansui AV77 video processor for occasional digital effects, and a couple of 13" video …