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CNN/Sports Illustrated Studio Tour - Quantel Editing
Quantel Video is displayed in
three columns for easy viewing |
These days you'll find most editing systems are based on analog tape which is a beta cassette tape. Usually you'll find whole rooms dedicated to editing and storing massive stacks of tape. At CNN/SI we use Quantel , a digital editing system. Video is cut together on this machine and kept inside a computer, creating a tapeless environment. That leaves more room for our full-size indoor basketball court and Olympic-size swimming pool. Nick Charles gets edgy if he doesn't do his laps.
The difference in quality of Quantel compares to that of a cassette tape and CD. Quantel allows the editor to select video with the touch of a pen-like device on a pad.
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Quantel Editor uses pen
to cut and paste highlights |
The selected video then appears in one of three columns on the desktop, looking similar to a reel of film. The editors select the portion of video they want to use and piece it together for the game's highlights.
Think of the process as similar to cutting and pasting together paragraphs in a word processing document. Wipes, dissolves and special effects can easily be added to spice up the action. Audio can moved around, tweaked or replaced using the pen. The highlights that the editors put together are then saved into the system and a shot sheet is typed up. The shot sheet, as you can see below, is a brief description of the plays used in the highlights. When the highlights are aired during the broadcast, the anchor adlibs, referring to the shot sheet.
Shot Sheet |
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