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From: thom@hpfcrx.UUCP (thom)
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Subject: VHS videotape editing?
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 17:29:00 EST
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Is there any consumer hardware available for editing VHS video tapes?
I know there is some (very expensive) available for industrial videotape
(i.e. the wider tape).  I would like to have two tape player/recorders
(actually one player and one recorder would work, but it isn't all that
common to find the player and the recorder decoupled in consumer units)
and be able to tell the thing I want to take frames x to y from unit one
and put them on unit two starting right here.  I would also like to be able
to take a freeze frame from unit 1 and have it recorded on frames x to y
on unit 2.  Maybe this request is a bit too much toward a solution than 
a statement of the problem.

What I want to be able to do is take images from slides and put them
on video tape and make presentations on videotape rather than the cumbersome
slide presentation mechanims.  I think I have the slide to videotape 
mechanism whipped (there are a number of ways to do that), but it is rather
difficult to synchonize the amount of time you want the image up there
merely using the slide to videotape recording step.  Ideally I want that
first step to be merely a slide image capture mechanism and the subsequent
steps to be the video production phase (i.e. play this slide this long).
     
Special effects like fade in/out would be nice, but not mandatory.

Thanks in advance for any sugestions.

Tom Morrissey
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