audio
Winning
is the thought that video editing and audio
preparation and mixing are entirely different
skills and for each to be executed in the best
possible way they should remain the preserve
of specialists. That's certainly the case in
feature film, drama and high end documentary
post-production but in the faster, more
deadline oriented world of news and sport a
coming together of the two has been almost
Post
inevitable.
Manufacturers have flirted with video-
audio systems over the years, notably Solid
State Logic in the early 1990s when it was
owned by the Carlton Group, and was stable
mates with Quantel. Back then the system did
not catch on but SSL returned to vision at last
year's IBC with the introduction of the Gravity
production and media management system for
newsrooms.
The latest to espouse the ‘convergence’ of
sound and pictures for production is digital
audio workstation manufacturer Fairlight,
KEVIN HILTON reports.
up-to-date with what is happening both on with its non-linear video player-recorder,
and off the pitch/field/track. Video editing PyxisTrack. This forms the basis of the
port on television never rests. The clearly plays a key role in compiling the DREAM II integrated video production system
S
Olympics are over for another four material for these but audio is equally and is also included in the Xynergi audio
years but the new football season important; commentary has either to be edited editing and control product. Fairlight calls the
has started and if the beautiful game or added and the location sound of the action coming together of audio and video the ‘holy
is not your thing there are all manner of other and the crowd ‘sweetened’ to remove any grail’ for those in broadcast production and
ball games, running, motor vehicles going harshness or distortion. PyxisTrack a ‘Swiss Army Knife’ in that it can
round in circles and general competitiveness As with news reports and lower budget perform all necessary tasks in every
filling up the schedules to take the attention. documentaries this kind of fast turnaround conceivable video standard and format,
The focus of most broadcasters in covering all programme production calls for a more including HD.
this achieving, physical exertion, integrated way of working, coming close to Certainly Xynergi is making in-roads into
gamesmanship and displays of skill is the live combining video and audio editing and, post-production, a field that was once
transmission - certainly that's what draws in consequently, the roles of the video editor and dominated by the AMS AudioFile but which,
the viewers who cannot get to the event itself audio mixer. Attempts to produce such a in recent years, has succumbed to the all
- but post-production plays a key part in system have been made over the years, even conquering Digidesign Pro Tools. Xynergi is
sport, one that is just as critical as the ‘as it back in the analogue days of the 1970s and enjoying particular success in the US for
happens’ coverage. '80s. posting sports programmes. The TV production
The highlights package, the round-up Digital has made the marriage of the two division of the NFL (National Football League)
programme and the weekly magazine show partners more feasible and easier to achieve. is installing 13 Xynergi systems operating on
are important in sport to keep ardent of fans What has stood in the way of a formal union the CC-1 plug-in processor, while the audio
Input Media's
department of the NASCAR (National
new audio
Association of Stock Car Auto Racing) Media
suite.
Group has five CC-1s, three installed on large-
scale DREAM Constellation consoles and two
for smaller satellite desks.
Fairlight's rivals have also been moving on
with the concept of the integrated production
centre. Avid has owned Digidesign since 1995
and during the early part of this decade there
was a flurry of acquisitions of audio
specialists by video editing/effects companies,
including, in July 2002, Apple buying Emagic,
developer of the Logic music production
software program.
Avid has incorporated many elements of
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