Re: NLE? Is there LE?

4 May 2005 12:53 AM

davesvideo@aol.com

C.J.Patten wrote:

> BTW: LE/NLE has NOTHING to do with digital versus non-digital. You
can do
> either in the analog or digital environment.

Not sure you get total random read write access for NLE in the analog
domain. What sort of devices are you thinking of?

Dave

4 May 2005 1:36 AM

C.J.Patten

Just making the point that neither "LE and digital" or "LE and analog" are
intrinsically linked - the fact that our computers are designed to work with
1's and 0's is coincidental.

Before firewire, we had analog tape as the source and analog tape as the
output - the computer in-between just happened to be digital.

The USSR was good at building analog computers though I don't know that they
were ever applied to NLE.

C.

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> C.J.Patten wrote:
>
>> BTW: LE/NLE has NOTHING to do with digital versus non-digital. You
> can do either in the analog or digital environment.
>
> Not sure you get total random read write access for NLE in the analog
> domain. What sort of devices are you thinking of?
>
> Dave
>

4 May 2005 7:48 AM

Chris Croughton

On Tue, 3 May 2005 21:36:44 -0400, C.J.Patten
<cjpatten@KNOWSPAMrogers.com> wrote:

> Just making the point that neither "LE and digital" or "LE and analog" are
> intrinsically linked - the fact that our computers are designed to work with
> 1's and 0's is coincidental.

Yup. Tri- and quad-state logic are quite feasible, so is "fuzzy logic"
with an analogue charge. Binary isn't necessarily the best...

> Before firewire, we had analog tape as the source and analog tape as the
> output - the computer in-between just happened to be digital.

Some of us still do (audio cassettes done as ADA: recorded on analogue
tape, digital mixing and processing, and analogue out to cassette). I
haven't seen any "straight to digital" microphones yet, although it
could be done (CCR cameras are "straight to digital").

> The USSR was good at building analog computers though I don't know that they
> were ever applied to NLE.

Does using a razor blade and splicing tape count as "non linear
editing"? It's effectively going very fast to the place ignoring what's
in between (certainly much faster than "real time") and then literally
"cut and paste" with no copying involved. I used to do it a lot with
audio, I've heard that some of the BBC engineers did it with video as
well...

(An analogue computer to hold more than a few seconds of video at modern
resolutions would be big...)

Chris C