Casablanca

INTRODUCTION

Whether you're a committed videomaker or an enthusiastic hobbiest, the Casablanca Avio, Prestige, Kron and Solitaire are the perfect editing solutions for creating professional-quality videos.

The Casablanca systems have been designed as all-in-one non-linear digital systems – you will not need a PC or any PC skills to use them. No external devices, such as editing desks or mixers, are required. All you need is your video camera or deck for adding footage, and a TV monitor or television set. This means you can concentrate fully on your video editing work.

VIDEO EDITING

The Casablanca Avio, Prestige, Kron and Solitaire are non-linear video editing devices. Non-linear means that the video footage and audio material are stored digitally on the device's hard drive and can then be edited in any order. Storing your footage on a hard drive has many advantages :

• Direct access to individual frames
• Perfect freeze frames
• No time spent winding tape
• Quickly change the start and end points of a scene
• Freely arrange and sort scenes
• Totally loss-free copying of footage

Once you have trimmed the individual scenes with single-frame accuracy and arranged them in the storyboard (all carried out in real time) you can insert transition effects between the storyboard scenes. These can range from simple fades to complex three-dimensional effects.

TITLING

The Casablanca series provide a wide range of options for creating titles :

• Rolling titles (e.g. for final credits)
• Scrolling text
• Faded-in pages
• Text boxes in any position
• Change font attributes (e.g. typeface, colour, shadow, texture) at any time

You extend the titling system with optional titling effects and font packages

VIDEO EFFECTS

The Casablanca devices are equipped with numerous standard effects. Scenes can be linked with digital transitions, with the results viewable in real-time and at full-screen size. Effects can also be allocated to entire scenes or scene selections. For example, colour correction can be applied or scene brightness adjusted.

The comprehensive basic range of effects can be extended with numerous effects packages and programs.

AUDIO MIXING/DUBBING

The Casablanca Avio provides three stereo audio tracks (upgradeable to six tracks with the Avio Pro-Package) whilst the Prestige, Kron and Solitaire are equipped with six stereo tracks as standard. These can be mixed as you please to meet your requirements for dubbing commentaries, music and sound effects.

Each recorded audio sample can be inserted anywhere in the film with single-frame accuracy. You can use the mixer controls to adjust volume and create fade in/out effects. You can also change the volume of the other sound tracks for the duration of a particular sound sample. For example, this allows you to decrease the volume of the music for the duration of a spoken commentary.