Edit 2 - digital editing at its best!

All of the company's new productions are edited in Edit 2 - our digital edit suite.

Audio, video, graphics and music data is stored in digital form on our central media servers, which have capacity for several hundred hours of video data.

All digitised material is accessible from the workstation in each technical area - including Edit 2.

Edit 2 – editing desk

Edit 2 - analogue VTR's

Edit 2 is based on the proven Avid/Pinnacle Liquid series NLE system, offering up to 50 megabit quality. The suite is equipped with several analogue and digital VTR's and ATR's.

Edit 2 is designed to meet the challenge of a gradual migration from analogue to digital production and account is taken for the fact that for many years - even after the introduction of HDTV, archive material in standard definition formats will continue to be essential programme content in otherwise digital productions.

Digital editing - especially when undertaken with such an intuitive and powerful software platform as Liquid, has many benefits in comparison to analogue editing.

Apart from the higher picture quality without generation-loss, the working process is far easier to follow and control, because all audio and video clips in a production can be "seen" as graphic objects on the edit computer's user interface.

An overview of the production - once confined to the editor's "inner eye" is now available to all involved in the post production process - even many years after the production was first edited, the edit structure of the production remains accessible.

Liquid project window (click for a larger image)

Because the production data is stored outside the edit suite on the central media server, Edit 2 is a quiet and cool working environment, in which it is possible to undertake recording - of narration, music or effects dubbing - with the artists in the same room as the engineer and production staff. For many productions this means a faster and more creative approach to the working process.

Edit 2 is an unusually powerful non-linear editing suite - not least because the central media server has capacity for the media data of several major productions at the same time - or for productions that run over a longer period, during which the need to move or delete data from the server to create space for other productions would be an expensive and time-consuming exercise.

For the technically interested!

The design and commissioning of Edit 2 in 2000 and 2001 was a particularly demanding process.

Channel 6 Television was amongst the first production companies to implement a non-linear editing system with remote media data storage over gigabit networking, using third-party computer hardware.

This led to an intensive and fruitful cooperation with Dell Computers and a unique technical solution for Edit 2.

Edit 2 - Edit desk at launch in 2000

Despite the many advances in digital editing and networking technology since 2001, much of the know-how and expertise that we harvested during the development of Edit 2 remains valuable for future development projects.

For further information about Edit 2 and the technical approach behind the system, please visit our Edit 2 website. (In English)

Technical data

PC workstation	Dell Precision 530 dual P4 Xeon 2.4GHz 2GB RDRAM

OS	MS Windows 2000 Server edition UK (Build 2195) SP4

NLE software	Avid/Pinnacle Liquid Silver 2.55 (Build 7734) MPEG2

NLE hardware	Liquid Silver PCI codec
	Liquid Silver VBS breakout-box
	Liquid Silver YUV / SDI breakout-box

VDU	2 x Dell P991 Trinitron 19" CRT

Video monitoring	Barco CVM-3051 SDI TX PGM monitor
	Barco DVM-1637 SDI VTR PVW monitor
	Tektronix 655-HR Assign PVW

Test & sync	Tektronix 145 SPG
	Tektronix 1485 WFM
	Philips PM-5565 WFM
	Philips PM-5567 Vectorscope

Routing	Sigma HPX 4-layer 8 x 8 matrix

Audio	Yamaha 03D digital audio mixer
	Tascam DA-30 Mk II DAT
	Sony CD-E11 CD player
	Sony MDS-E11 minidisc player/recorder
	Akai DR-4vr Digital hard disc recorder
	Tascam 122 Mk II cassette ATR
	Dual gramophone turntable
	Behringer T-1953 Stereo valve microphone preamplifier
	Behringer T-1952 Stereo valve compressor limiter
	Behringer T-1951 Stereo valve parametric equalizer
	Sony SRP-E210 stereo 31 band graphic equaliser
	K-ROK 6000 active monitor speakers
	DK-Audio MSD-100T PPM/FFT monitor
	Leader LBO-55C stereoscope
	NTP 177-800 PPM (Nordic calibration)

VTR	Sony BVH-3100 1" C-format med PR-98 TBC
	Sony DVW-500P Digital Betacam edit VTR
	Sony BVW-70P Betacam SP med TBC-12
	Sony BVU-870 High Band U-matic SP with BVT-800 TBC
	JVC BR-S822E VHS/SVHS with BVT-800 TBC
	10 x Sony SVO-915P VHS duplication decks

Video processors	COX 600J "Cox-box" colour processor
	Sony BVX-10P Component colour processor

TCG/TCR	Sony BVG-1600 TCG/TCR

Patching	Video 80 point MUSA patchbay
	Audio 252 way PO-316 jackfield
	SPDIF 32 way Type A jackfield
	Tidskode 20 way PO-316 jackfield

Music	Evolution MK-125 MIDI keyboard

Monitor router	Channel 6 generic 8 channel active monitor router

Remote control	5 x BVR-50 TBC remote panels
	1 x BVR-58 Colour processor remote controller
	1 x BKDV-108 Digital TBC remote
	1 x BVR-800 VTR remote
	1 x BVR-75A VTR remote
	1 x BVR-820 Assignable serial VTR remote
	2 x Sigma matrix remote panels
	Serial control for Sony MDS-E11

General purpose PC	Dell Precision 530 dual P4 Xeon 2.4GHz 1GB RDRAM with 20" CRT HR display

Graphics PC	HP D530 P4 2.4GHz HT workstation with dual TFT displays

Encoding PC	Compaq D51S P4 2.4GHz workstation with dual TFT displays

Edit 2 has direct access to Edit 1 and the central apparatus room, as well as additional analogue and digital VTR's in the duplication suite. From Edit 2 VHS duplication can also be undertaken direct from the production's digital master file, giving VHS copies of first generation quality.

As the company's primary post-production facility, Edit 2 is under constant improvement. For productions with special requirements such as dubbing and rostrum camera work, Edit 2 can be supplemented with additional equipment for our other technical areas.

For further information about Edit 2 please contact our production office.

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