Re: marrying the pxl2k with a computer?

[Tracy Hunker <thunker@freenet.columbus.oh.us>]

On Tue, 21 May 1996, john manoogian wrote:



> 

> the sima jive is another deal. i have a sima pro-edit3 (fader box with 2 

> V ins and 2 V outs; stero, color correct, etc.). it's not a bad piece of 

> equipment for what it runs (~ US$125.00), but it doesn't help that much 

> w/actual _editing_. it's more of a processor, etc.

> 

> i believe that the sfx-4 will do dissolves; if it will, that would be 

> sweet, but the price seems too low. i'm not sure what the other one you 

> mention actually _is_...i know that the mx-4 rocks; i mixed live once at 

> a party with some guys who had one...unfortunately they're like $1k...but 

> this digresses from pxl-specific editing tools. 



  You can't do dissolves between VCRs without Time Base Correction. The

sfx-4 is too cheap for that feature, but the MX-1 (I think you meant to

write) does a digital synch on two of four video inputs. Panasonic has a

WAVE-7 that is a cheaper MX-1, but only has two inputs. Dissolves on

cheaper equipment is usually where video dissolves to a color then back to

video. I've seen used MX-1's on the Internet for $550. It seems a

bit much for PXL productions. PXL seems to be the opposite of slick.