Edit Suite: Bare-bones Editing: Simple Editing Without a Controller (page 2)
Setting Up the Suite
You can set up your simple editing suite on a portable table positioned near your TV and VCR. Even the living-room coffee table will work.
For the rest of this article, we'll use the setup consisting of the camcorder as the playback deck and the VCR as the record deck to describe the editing steps.
Set your camcorder on the table and run the cables to the recording VCR and monitors. Put your original camcorder footage in the playback deck and a blank tape in the recording VCR.
Be careful not to accidentally record over your original tapes. If your original footage is on VHS or S-VHS tape, disable the recording function on the tapes by breaking out the small plastic tab located beside the long label. If you want to reuse the tapes at some other time, then place a small piece of tape over the hole.
On 8mm, Hi8 and DV tapes, disable the recording function by sliding the small tab to cover the hole. Now you're ready to…
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