This page basically tells you what we use, how we use it. It's not too tecnical but it will have to do!

We have access to lots of nifty equipment at our local Community Access Television station,
in Erie Pennsylvania. CAT Channel 2 - Erie Cablevision

In the beginning... kinda sounds important or something, In the beginning, there was only darkness...
But I digress...

In the beginning there was only linear editing, meaning we had 2 vcr's and alot of wires...
This got really old after 15 shows or so.
Since Cat was already in a transition to digital non-linear editing, we jumped right on that bandwagon.
Especially since there are only so many things you can do with two vcr's and a wire...
Of course it wasn't that simple, but it was very limiting and frustrating.
If you made a mistake you had to go all the way back to the beginning and start over.
So now we use dedicated video editors called Applied Magic, as well as a system called Edirol, and a Media 100 system on a Macintosh.
I used to master my tapes out to 3/4 u-matic decks, then came digital, so until recently I had been mastering to mini-dv, which in my opinion has too many dropouts, since the tape is so small, if you get a single speck of dust on the tape it can glitch...
CAT has recently aquired a DVD burner, which is my new playtoy, I have mastered 4 shows out on it and am in the process of putting all my 3/4 inch u-matic tapes on DVD, yay!
Our cameras are Cannon GL1 mini Dv models with superior low light capeability and quality.
Though we also use a broken vhs camera that does not record, when I need footage in a hurry at home, and cannot sign out a camera.
The only problem with all of this is that you need to schedule time 7 days in advance to get any equipment, so if I want to shoot something on short notice, I'm out of luck.
And every time I need my usual editor, it is either being serviced or in use, but I'm not complaining, since this is all mine for the low cost of $40 per year!
You cannot beat that deal!
Of course this brings us to the studio, yep, that's right, I said a studio!
We have access to a real television studio, with semi professional equipment, and some pro stuff.
Like a Grass Valley video switcher, a nice 18 channel audio mixer, sound effects stuff, a character generator, professional studio Sony video cameras.
As well as chroma key also known as, green screen, plus a whole slew of lighting effects, lights, and stage backdrops.
Of course none of the professional aspect seeps into our show, if so, it was an accident and will never happen repeatidly on purpose!.
I always find a way to screw up either the audio, video, spell something like I am an eediot, or all of the above!
But it's all in fun, and I do the best with the footage and mistakes I cause myself!

...Well that's it, I said it's not too technical, and it's definitely not.
But if you want to find out more, just go to the CAT website, they have all the techie stuff, or at least explain stuff better than I can if you ask them nicely...
My highest priority now is to obtain an editor, most likely PC based and whatever the best software editing package may be.
I need this at home so I am not tied down to needing the studio editors and I could edit any time I please.