Why should anyone conceivably want unlimited video and audio tracks?

Example 1

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These days it’s not impossible for a corporate customer to want the title sequence in their video to have, say, 6 different clips of video footage all overlaid against one another.

These clips will also need to be image enhanced.

They will also want animated title captions, all composited together with splash light effects and shadows. 

The whole pastiche may then be dubbed against a slowly moving blurred background.

Accompanying all this could be the theme music in stereo, a telling soundbite or two from the programme, and a couple of sound effects.

That’s a total of twenty four or more tracks. All in perfect sync. And it has to look like a compelling high impact image.

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Achieving this level of presentation takes real skill and artistry, backed up by specialist software on a dedicated compositing workstation.

None of this is really feasible on a regular digital edit suite. Work of this quality would normally have to be put out to a specialist, or replaced with something less sophisticated.

Example 2

There are legions of examples of how the power of compositing many tracks together can greatly improve the look of virtually any production.

For example in a drama, separate sound tracks may be required for Lead Actor 1, Lead Actor 2, two support characters, ambient sound from the set, a voiceover, and quite possibly sound effects and music.

All this audio has to be neatly knitted together to form one easy flowing and crystal clear body of sound that an audience can absorb.

And bear in mind that some of the audio may need treating, so that distant voices appear further away, and thinner sounding voices given more presence, and so on.

Advanced digital editing allows many different video and audio tracks to be composited in a perfectly smooth and natural way.

The only limitation is your imagination!

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