Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

Research & Development

Abstract

Whilst digital audio techniques offer many advantages over their analogue counterparts, the difficulty of editing digital recordings has detracted from the widespread adoption of this technology in broadcasting. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ has continued its research in this field with the development of a disc-based Digital Audio Editor to assess the capabilities of this type of equipment in a broadcast environment. This equipment became operational in September 1987 and has since been used for a wide variety of programmes with differing requirements.

This report describes some of the editing techniques implemented and the advantages and disadvantages of disc-based editing which have become apparent under operational conditions.