Editing at the journalist's desktop.(one-stop digital editing systems)

Broadcasting & Cable, March, 1996

As broadcasters warily eye the digital newsroom of the future, one of the more attractive components is a journalist editing workstation as part of the newsroom automation system. At this multimedia PC terminal, journalists will be able to write scripts and perform video editing either preparing an EDL (edit decision list) for a dedicated editor to work with or completing a ready-to-air version.

Although many newsrooms are configured with video in the form of stand-alone VTRs and monitors, and journalists often screen video and note in-and-out points for stories before stories are sent to the edit suite, the multimedia newsroom terminal would gather all those tasks in one place. "It's a very intoxicating idea," says Charles Jabionski, NBC vice president of...

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