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Video editing system

  • US 4,618,895 A
  • Filed: 08/31/1983
  • Issued: 10/21/1986
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. The process of preparing a color video tape having an audio track for video self-editing when subsequently played across to a video recorder, comprising the steps ofplaying an initial portion of such tape on a video playback machine and simultaneously viewing same on a color video monitor connected therewith, to the conclusion of a first segment selected for such subsequent duplication,while so playing and viewing, laying down on such audio track signal means both to differentiate portions of the video tape then selected for duplication from unselected portions thereof, and to start and stop such video recorder,so controlling, by the presence or absence of said signal means, the video input to the monitor as to delete color from such video input simultaneously with the display on such monitor of unselected portions of the video tape, andrepeating the aforesaid steps for subsequent portions of the tape,whereby, by adjusting the position at which such signal means are laid down on the audio track, the absence of color on the monitor screen indicates those portions which will be self-edited from the tape when thereafter played across to such video recorder.

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