I am currently working on an all digital post suite installation, and must 
say I am quite impressed with the quality of the video (very big 
UNDERstatement).
This house has an AXIAL editor (approx $133K), and I was looking for some 
feedback from other users of this system. I had never seen or heard of these 
folks before (except for print ads), and was very impressed with its 
capabilities. This installation also uses a pair of real-time read/write 
disks that allow up to several minutes of real-time video storage, so they 
can actually do effects using two segments on the same tape! IOW, you can do 
an A/B wipe (for example) using two segments on the A reel.
This house uses D-2 and digital Beta machines, a Chyron Maxine, and a BTS 
switcher (BTS made him a sweeter deal than Grass I guess). The switcher has 
11 Aux busses, all under Editor control.
The fella that owns all these neat toys firmly believes that TV has evolved 
almost to its highest format (as far as tape machines go), that of component 
digital. Digital BetaCam and Panasonics D-5 series seem to be in this 
category, are there any other component digital (as opposed to composite 
digital) systems out there?
Thanx,
                          **Mike**  
 
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