On 08/02/2021 02:18 pm, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Chris J Dixon wrote:
Caecilius wrote:

On Sun, 07 Feb 2021 18:21:33 GMT, JohnP wrote:

A couple of things intrugue me about TV production:

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2. When cutting from one scene (in a drama) do they often cut to the new
sound - ahead of the picture? I suppose it is for some artistic reason -
but I can't appreciate it.

It's a video/film editing technique called a "J cut". See he
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_cut

I believe on traditional film, the sound signal is displaced from
the image, as it needs to run smoothly whilst the image jerks
through the gate.

Is it the case that a well-chosen film splice could have just the
effect described?

That would be more of a repair than edit. In the pro field, sound and
pictures have always been able to edit separately. Except, perhaps, the
early days of videotape.

As I understand it, editing of videotaped material has always involved
copying, rather than physical cutting and assembly.

The reason for this was brought home to me over forty years ago, the
first time I had a VHS cassette tape snap. I located the break, cleaned
up the new mating surfaces and made a new joint with several pieces of
1/4" audio splicing tape (something I'd previously been doing with
audio-tape, obviously).

It wasn't a physically bad job, considering the extra width of the
recording tape and the limited width of the slicing tape, but the
cassette was unusable because of the signal broke down when it got to
that point. This was when E180s cost £17.95 each...