Single channel method and apparatus for automatically optimizing insert editing in a signal recorder

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The following description of the principles of our invention are in terms of a magnetic tape storage medium.
That is by way of illustration only, and not by way of limitation.
The principles of our invention apply equally well to a disc store medium or, for that matter, to any storage medium which stores data in a manner that, after reading and understanding the following detailed description of an illustrative embodiment of the principles of our invention, resembles a relatively straight or relatively curvilinear trace or track recording of stored information.
Further, the principles of our invention are not limited to the kind of information stored on the storage medium or to the timing or sampling rates described.
Although the illustrative embodiment is described in terms of video signals and audio signals being the subject of an edit optimization, that is also only by way of illustration, and not by way of limitation, for the information could be video signals, audio signals, both, or still another type of signal and further could be digital information, or analog information, or both, or still another form of information.
To prepare for an editing session, an edit operator, or user, of the edit optimization system and method to be described could mount the storage medium such as the magnetic tape to be edited onto any of a variety of recorders for that storage medium such as the VPR.
RTM.
300, which is a D2 composite digital format video tape recorder manufactured by Ampex Corporation, for a magnetic tape storage medium.
Note that the D2 composite digital format is a well known video tape format.
Note also that the tape recorder which is to be used in the edit session may be different than the tape recorder that was used to store the information on the tape to be edited, or even the temperature and humidity between recording time and edit time may be different, it being noted that there is an almost limitless number of variables which could have an effect on the edit optimization process, where the edit optimization process includes the process of locating the precise location of the information to be edited in the edit session