Whats special about DV non-linear editing?
DV is compressed just enough to be able to stream into and out of garden-variety PCs and Macs, and the availability of inexpensive 1394 I/O cards and fast hard disks means that high quality video storage and manipulation on desktop computers is possible without having to spend a king’s ransom on specialized RAID arrays and proprietary codecs. DV can be stored and manipulated in native form, without transcoding to JPEG, MPEG, Wavelets, or the like. The same high quality seen on DV tape is maintained in the computer. You can put together a DV editing system with 90 minutes of online storage for under US$1000, and have a workable system that produces broadcast-quality output. If you already have an appropriate PC, you can get into DV editing for under $50 (a 1394 card with some editing software included). If you have a recent Mac, it already comes with 1394 and a copy of iMovie. Of course, you can spend a lot more, adding onscreen, full-resolution scrubbing; more storage; better machine c
