TV News Reporter Tips in the Editing Booth

Video Transcript

"BILL ALBIN: Hello, I'm Bill Albin. And on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to teach you what you need to know to be a local news reporter. In this clip, we're going to talk about an edit booth. Edit booths are found in every TV station around the world. This is where reporters and photographers and editors come to do their work, to actually take the video, take the sound bites, take all those things that go together to make a story and then you edit them. You have things in here like routers and VTRs. A VTR is much like your VCR at home. It's a tape deck. You put a tape in there. The tape has video and audio on it. You have your audio mixer, things for adjusting your sound levels and that sort of thing. You have monitors so you can see all the video that you're going to be editing. You need all of these things to really put your story together. You need--so there's a variety of different kinds of pieces of equipment in an edit booth, and they all work together. They all work with the reporter, with the editor or photographer, and they use all of this equipment, including the sound and the video and those sorts of things, to compile your story and turn it into some sort of finished product. So you would end up having your completed story or your completed video or whatever on a tape so that during the news, the [SOUNDS LIKE] tape-up could take that tape, play it out over the air while the anchor or reporter is talking, or, as we spoke of in another clip about the packages that are pre-produced, complete stories on tape are also created in an edit booth like this."