Old Days of Onsite Video Editing I remember in 1997, we offered our big client the ability to do live onsite editing for playback right then at their closing event in the hotel ballroom. Sure, we had done some betacam editing, linear style in a few rare instances, but this time, we’d be playing back on our relatively new non-linear editing computer. We had a crew of 8 or so and felt we could do it. It was scary– the computer had a propensity to crash or to fail and we would not have time to output to tape. But it all worked that night. In 2000, it had become even more simple. I took a laptop to a clients event and ingested the tape footage and played back a video– all as a one man crew. On Site Video…
