Audiovisual Dictionary

Get to know the terms of the audiovisual ecosystem

Pre-Read

Head for previous reading of the magnetoscopes, edition with Pre-read.

The insert type edition that is done using pre-read heads (preread), with this edition it is possible to record the signal that these heads read, so that a magnetoscope acts as a player and recorder at the same time.

The heads can act on both the video and the audio. First it reads the signal from the tape and takes this signal through the corresponding conduits, this signal can be mixed with another through an external device (mixer, DVE,) or can be assigned to the equipment itself and for example modify the audio level, recording the signal with the desired modification and all with a single magnetoscope.

With two magnetoscopes, one of them with preread, and an external mixer you can achieve effects as chains that once could only be done with an A/B Roll edition (two players and a recorder).