Duplication Lab Editing:
Deck-to-deck analog editing on a very simple scale with a maximum of
three edited segments.

Custom Editing:
Non-linear digital editing in one of our labs.

If you are interested in duplicating several select sections of one tape, combining sections from multiple tapes, or combining video clips, still images, graphics, music and/or video effects, then you can take advantage of our custom editing services which can produce anything from broadcast quality commercial products to multimedia presentations to simple edits of home movies.

In order to extract specific segments of footage from a tape, it is necessary to create an edit decision list. If you are creating an edit decision list (EDL) to help us better understand which segments of your tape you would like to have edited or duplicated, please include:

• Start time of the segment
• End time of the segment
• Audio/video description of the start time & end time points

In order for our start & end times to be accurate, please use a VCR with a real-time counter. That is a counter that shows 5 digits displaying the hour, minutes & seconds (H:MM:SS). Before you begin, please remember to rewind the tape to the beginning and make sure the counter is set to
zero (0:00:00).

When preparing more than one tape, please be sure to label and number all your tapes in the order you intend to use them.

If you are taking multiple clips off the same tape, do not remove the tape from the VCR until you have documented all the edit points on the EDL. Every time the tape is ejected, the counter resets itself. Your edit points will be incorrect if you remove the tape.

Since every VCR varies up to a few seconds in playback, our editors require an audio and video cue for each edit point.