Appendix 2
Timecode: The Link between Sight and Sound
Timecode was developed to solve a particular problem – that of editing video tape. Before video, all programmes were live or on film. Video recording was first seen as a means of conveniently time-shifting live programmes for broadcast when people, in their various time zones, were likely to be home from work and still awake. A step forward in thinking from time shifting is the possibility of showing a programme more than once. But this is hardly stretching the concept of video recording beyond being a mere convenience.
Sound editing had been used as a production tool since the days when radio programmes were recorded on 78 rpm discs. Dub edits, from disc to disc, were made to assemble a complete ...
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