Bitscope Program
Laurence Payne wrote:
If you don't understand how
razor blade editing works, how can you be expected to understand the
need for crossfading at the splice
Well, you could ask someone who understood digital editing techniques
to explain it to you :-)
Well, maybe somebody should explain it to some of the people who make
editing programs. Only Fast Edit did it right without prodding and
coaxing.
But what I meant by that comment is that if you see a diagonal splice
and have a clue that the narrower the tape, the quieter the sound, you
can see how the source fades out while the destination fades in.
That's like explaining compression in terms of the techniques required
to stop a needle falling out of a shellac groove. Mildly interesting,
but not terribly helpful.
Sorry, but I don't get that simile.
You've got to get it out of your head that
digital techniques are necessarily straight replacements for analogue
ones.
But when it comes to splicing, it doesn't matter whether you're in the
analog or digital world. You still need to crossfade over a splice in
order to avoid a click. If you believe that all you need to do is
splice at the zero crossing, you've been reading too much Internet.
When there's a discontinuity, there's a click, and there are only two
ways to avoid a discontinuity at a splice:
1. Crossfade between the two segments.
or
2. Splice in exactly what you took out. (so why'd you take it out
anyway?)
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