I approve, especially if the recording in question involves martial arts! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Regarding what's actually needed for editing, one of the books (not Sim Dreams, one of the older ones) gives some information about what it takes to edit a simsense/ASIST feed for the purposes of producing a simsense trid. I'll look it up to be sure, but I THINK the system is essentially an Edit + Computer roll.

Edit: The sections on simsense in Unwired and Attitude don't have anything about actual production, neither does the appendix about simsense in The Twilight Horizon, and the LA section of Corporate Guide just makes an offhanded reference to "a hacker with a good Edit program" (as fluff, not crunch). If it were me house-ruling it as a GM, I'd probably go with a combination of Edit and either access to a simsynth (mentioned in Unwired, but no specs are given for it) or at least a commlink with a sim module (although you'd basically have to edit it by using yourself or another viewer as a guinea pig, IMO, which could be interesting). Hope that helps.

Relevant text is in Shadowbeat...

good to know, THANKS

but I'm not about to go out and buy the shopping list of about 5 sources now ... Including Canray's recent plug, just for this one idea

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) That's the GM's job (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Fluff wise, if you have a sim rig and want to sell recordings, its worth considering that you need not sell the full raw recordings. You could strip out just the emotive track and sell that, for example. Some sim producer making a high-stress sim then mixes a bit of that emotion in the editing room, or patches it through the star during the (relatively safe) perfromence to create the required emotional intensity. Similarly, the pain you suffer from injuries might be of interest, both to movie producers, and makers of black ice, and maybe even darker types.

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True, but Shadowbeat is an amazing resource, even if it IS from 1st Edition. Oh, and they now have it in PDF Format, from what I have seen. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Fluff wise, if you have a sim rig and want to sell recordings, its worth considering that you need not sell the full raw recordings. You could strip out just the emotive track and sell that, for example. Some sim producer making a high-stress sim then mixes a bit of that emotion in the editing room, or patches it through the star during the (relatively safe) perfromence to create the required emotional intensity. Similarly, the pain you suffer from injuries might be of interest, both to movie producers, and makers of black ice, and maybe even darker types.

Comparing the two, Unwired has pretty well the same fluff and mechanics information for simsense production as Shadowbeat, just updated for 4th Ed. There aren't any equipment lists for it in Unwired, though.

Interesting idea, it kind of reminds me of selling individual recording tracks from a music production instead of selling the whole piece. The thing is, wouldn't you still need the simsynth to actually isolate that emotive track?

Interesting idea, it kind of reminds me of selling individual recording tracks from a music production instead of selling the whole piece. The thing is, wouldn't you still need the simsynth to actually isolate that emotive track?

there are rules for toolkits, shops, and facilities that you use to make stuff using skills. just decide what equivalent you need for this task (i would think a shop is adequate), and there you go.

mind you, i would add that these would more likely be software, rather than a physical location... but still basically a toolkit (something you run on your commlink for basic stuff), shop (more powerful tools, fine for fuzzing out faces or separating out specific tracks i would think), and facility (might actually be physical, in that it's probably used to actually mass-produce chips, probably necessary if you want to handle multiple simsense inputs at a time, probably also necessary for working up anything from component parts and such, making multi-POV simsense recordings, etc).

it's a bit of an abstraction, but i see no reason it wouldn't work to some extent.

there are rules for toolkits, shops, and facilities that you use to make stuff using skills. just decide what equivalent you need for this task (i would think a shop is adequate), and there you go.

mind you, i would add that these would more likely be software, rather than a physical location... but still basically a toolkit (something you run on your commlink for basic stuff), shop (more powerful tools, fine for fuzzing out faces or separating out specific tracks i would think), and facility (might actually be physical, in that it's probably used to actually mass-produce chips, probably necessary if you want to handle multiple simsense inputs at a time, probably also necessary for working up anything from component parts and such, making multi-POV simsense recordings, etc).

it's a bit of an abstraction, but i see no reason it wouldn't work to some extent.

Probably, although given the raw sim recording is just another data file, I can't see why a special piece of hardware is needed to extract those "tracks". Early SR often under-estimated the utility of general purpose computing (see "cyberdeck"). Probably the sort of thing you'd do through a middle man either way, which means there's somebody you are trusting with those raw recordings... potentially a nice excuse for a negative quality.

although they COULD just record it all as one track and manually separate each source with a digital recorder and a PC, it's a lot faster and cleaner to just record everything as separate tracks. You don't HAVE to do it that way, but the difference in quality is noticeable in the end product.

That's not to say you couldn't do video work with a hex editor, just that it's probably not the best use of your time to do so. (I think there's also a penalty for "inadequate tools" on the Build/Repair table that would apply in this case, assuming that's the set of rules you're using.)

why would the specialized equipment go away? it might be something that you don't need access to the physical location for (ie you just run everything over the matrix) or something like that, but if you get better results using specialized equipment now, even when the raw power behind it is not necessarily any greater, why wouldn't get better results in the future for using specialized equipment of equivalent power?

why would the specialized equipment go away? it might be something that you don't need access to the physical location for (ie you just run everything over the matrix) or something like that, but if you get better results using specialized equipment now, even when the raw power behind it is not necessarily any greater, why wouldn't get better results in the future for using specialized equipment of equivalent power?

i would still expect to need to own the specialized tools. you might not need to physically go to them, but you probably still want to have them if you want good quality.

anything to stop me buying the suite and getting a "contact" setup to be a studio engineer? for want of a better phrase

My chars personal skillset is purely hardware, so would be utterly useless in this respect BUT, anything to stop me buying the suite and getting a "contact" setup to be a studio engineer? for want of a better phrase