Year 2, Semester 2, Week 3, Lecture

In this mornings lecture I learned about the different Digital Editing Systems. In the handout we first looked at Media 100 which aimed to take some of Avids market and was considered a cheaper but high-quality platform. Lightworks which was founded in 1989, during the mid-late 90s, fought for a market place against Avid, but in 1998 production was stopped for a period. Then under new ownership, production resumed with 2 main ranges Lightworks Touch and Lightworks Alacrity but both have lost large % of market to Avid. We then looked at the difference between HD and SD, the difference being HD has a collection of digital formats that offer higher resolution images and frame rates, also employs a 16:9 AR which gives a cinematic look. SD includes all analog video formats from consumer hi-8 video to professional BetaSP. We also then looked at Editing Files and remembering to date your first, second and final cuts to allow you to move back to a previous cut that you where happy with. In the conclusion of the lecture we had a recap on Timecode.