based editing systems versus black box. Which is better?
Black Box editors like Applied Magic’s Screenplay and DraCo’s Casablanca are essentially computers in a box with all the required hard drives, software and processing hardware included. Most computer hardware and software solutions are available for both Macintosh and Windows computers. These start at $1500 and go up from there. The advantage of using a black box editing solution is that you do not have to share it with your other computing tasks. There is much less chance of it crashing because you installed a bad program or caught a virus. Black boxes are harder to re-configure and change – this prevents you from screwing things up by experimenting. In addition, black boxes are usually much more portable than desktop video editing systems. About the size and shape of a VCR, all you have to do is hook it up to your TV set or monitor and you are ready to edit. Once your video is digitized onto the black box’s hard drive, you can edit your videos anywhere – in the living room, the garag
