Basic TV Technology, 4th Edition

High-quality tape editing.

Off-Line and On-Line Editing

SMPTE time code also makes on-line and off-line editing practical and economical. A top of the line, full-blown editing suite can easily cost over $1 million to build, while an editing suite using a smaller format might cost less than a quarter of that. The rental fees of such suites will reflect the difference in costs. So it's going to cost a lot more (five or six times as much) to do all your work in the expensive suite than if you could do most of your work in the less expensive suite and spend only a little time in the high-end suite. This is what on-line and off-line editing lets you do. To begin with, when you first record your show on high-quality tape, you also record it on small-format ...