The EditDroid was a computerized analog NLE (non-linear alteration system), developed by Lucasfilm aftereffect company, the Droid Works and Convergence Corporation who formed a collective adventure company. The aggregation existed up through the mid-80's to the aboriginal 90's in an attack to move from analog alteration methods to digital. EditDroid aboriginal debuted at the NAB 62nd Annual affair in Las Vegas in 1984 circumstantial with addition alteration apparatus that would attempt with the EditDroid for all its years in production, the Montage Account Processor. The EditDroid was never a bartering success and afterwards the abutting of The Droid Works in 1987 and consecutive redevelopment of the artefact for seven years, thecomputer application for it was eventually awash to Avid Technology in 1993.citation needed Only 24 EditDroid systems were anytime produced.
The arrangement was Laserdisc-based, relying on several laserdisc players and a database arrangement which would chain up the clips in the adjustment bare from the laserdisc players in the best able way, so as to abbreviate skipping. This about wasn't consistently possible. So if the edits weren't abundantly close, the arrangement wouldn't consistently be fast abundant to cue up the abutting clip.
It had three screens affiliated to it: one was a Sun-1 computer affectation (the graphical UI for the product), additional one baby video (preview) adviser and one ample rear-projected absolute 'the cut' and was controlled by a custom controller. The controller, alleged the TouchPad, featured a KEM-style shuttle knob, a trackball, and a host of buttons with LED labels that afflicted in action depending on what the arrangement was doing. The EditDroid pioneered the use of the graphical affectation for editing—introducing the "timeline" as able-bodied as agenda account icons to analyze raw antecedent clips.
Once the absolute cine had been edited, a "cut list" of apparent frames was angry over to a blur class area the absolute pieces of blur were spliced calm in the actual order.
The EditDroid no best exists as such, and the bazaar for nonlinear alteration systems has afflicted radically back its inception, with articles like Final Cut Pro accessible at customer level. In abounding respects the EditDroid was a abstraction affirmation of the approaching of editing, with a laserdisc actuality a acceptable 1980s simulation of what agenda admission would be like, and an alteration interface and workflow that was added like today's methods than any of the cine beeline or analog nonlinear articles arch up to the Avid/1 in 1990.
The arrangement was Laserdisc-based, relying on several laserdisc players and a database arrangement which would chain up the clips in the adjustment bare from the laserdisc players in the best able way, so as to abbreviate skipping. This about wasn't consistently possible. So if the edits weren't abundantly close, the arrangement wouldn't consistently be fast abundant to cue up the abutting clip.
It had three screens affiliated to it: one was a Sun-1 computer affectation (the graphical UI for the product), additional one baby video (preview) adviser and one ample rear-projected absolute 'the cut' and was controlled by a custom controller. The controller, alleged the TouchPad, featured a KEM-style shuttle knob, a trackball, and a host of buttons with LED labels that afflicted in action depending on what the arrangement was doing. The EditDroid pioneered the use of the graphical affectation for editing—introducing the "timeline" as able-bodied as agenda account icons to analyze raw antecedent clips.
Once the absolute cine had been edited, a "cut list" of apparent frames was angry over to a blur class area the absolute pieces of blur were spliced calm in the actual order.
The EditDroid no best exists as such, and the bazaar for nonlinear alteration systems has afflicted radically back its inception, with articles like Final Cut Pro accessible at customer level. In abounding respects the EditDroid was a abstraction affirmation of the approaching of editing, with a laserdisc actuality a acceptable 1980s simulation of what agenda admission would be like, and an alteration interface and workflow that was added like today's methods than any of the cine beeline or analog nonlinear articles arch up to the Avid/1 in 1990.
