Sony Corporation

Sony Corporation of America

Tesla, Inc.

David Wheeler

Douglas D Kuper

William A Menezes

Ted E Langford

Jacob Warman

John Hughes

Chris Mccarthy

A post production offline editing system including a processor programmed to display an initial menu prompting a user to select a multiple camera editing mode (in which the user selects edits while simultaneously viewing scenes from two or more sources), a single camera editing mode, a display edit information mode, or a scene take management mode. Preferably in the single camera edit mode, the user may select a splice (or transition) between two edits by selecting a sequence of items from sequentially displayed transition menus. For example, a first pulldown transition menu prompts the user to select a general transition type such as a 'dissolve' or 'wipe,' and a second pulldown transition menu then prompts the user to select one of several versions of the selected general transition type. In the multiple camera editing mode, the user may select either a set-up mode or an execute mode. In the edit list management mode, the user may select a variety of modes, including a rehearse mode, a list management mode, and a reformat mode. In the display edit information mode, the invention preferably displays a partial edit list and a highlight icon, respectively, in first and second areas of a monitor screen. When a user selects a region of the highlight icon corresponding to a selected edit, the system highlights the selected edit from the displayed list and displays information about the selected edit in a third area of the monitor screen.

Offline editing system

For determining the address, in terms of its respective longitudinal time code, of a selected video or other information signal recorded on a tape which has both longitudinal time codes and control pulses or control track signals recorded along its length, when the information signal is selected while the tape is being moved at a speed which is insufficient for the reliable reading of its longitudinal time codes, the tape is accelerated to a speed sufficient for the longitudinal time codes to be reliably read and a subsequently encountered longitudinal time code is read, the reproduced control pulses are counted between the time that an information signal is selected and the time that the subsequently encountered longitudinal time code is read, and a derived address of the selected information signal is determined, in terms of its respective longitudinal time code, as a function of the value of the subsequently encountered longitudinal time code and the count of the reproduced control pulses.

Apparatus and method for determining time code addresses at low tape

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David Wheeler