Todd-AO/Editworks Adapts Todd-AO/Editworks Adapts With the addition of two new SPACE(TM) Digital Video recorders, Todd-AO/Editworks recently converted a composite digital suite into a new component digital suite with non-linear editing options. This unique use of technology in SPACE leverages the speed of non-linear editing with the speed of real time effects generation, while allowing images to be written to disk in the background.

A Grass Valley 2200-B component switcher and Axial 3000 controller used with Random Access Visual Editing (RAVE) options in concert with SPACE, allows James Wilson, Chief Engineer at Todd-AO/Editworks, to create a process that allows non-linear editing in a linear suite. Todd-AO/Editworks owns a total of four Pluto SPACE drives, a custom configurable, full bandwidth, uncompressed disk recorder, which came on the market in January of 1997. Todd-AO/Editworks' engineers are investigating applying this technology to their other digital component bay in an effort to increase editorial efficiency and enhance the technological capabilities offered to their clients.