What is Casablanca?

Put simply, Casablanca is a very special kind of digital video editing system.

Actually, it's not just one machine. It's more like 4 different machines combined in one user-friendly interface:

	Video editing system - For cutting videos.
	Video effect machine - For giving your videos incredible effects.
	Video titler - For titling your videos using different fonts and functions.
	Audio mixing - For mixing the video sound.

You can edit, cut, re-arrange and sort your video scenes as you please. Adding effects and various kinds of cuts is done without the usual quality loss you get when following the traditional way of editing (thus making several copies). This is because of Casablanca's digital recording method.
If you are unhappy about the order of the scenes, simply re-arrange them in real time. No quality-loss and as often as you wish.
Three digital stereo tracks can be mixed to give your video that final touch.
Casablanca works without video tapes, making it immune to the typical aging of mechanical parts.

Once happy with your work, record the finished version to tape. You will only need one video recorder and one TV set to make use of the fantastic possibilities Casablanca offers.

Casablanca is simply plugged into your TV or video-monitor. Using the on-screen menus and the supplied trackball, you can whiz through the functions, making Casablanca's interface not a lot more complicated than a video recorder's.

Casablanca's possibilities

The method of digitally saving video data opens up a sheer unlimited array of possibilities for Casablanca.
The following is a rough list of the functions and possibilities.

	Record video films to Casablanca.
	Split the material into single scenes.
	The scenes are then edited, trimmed, deleted.
	Rearrange the video's scenes in the story-board.
	Playback the result in real time without quality-losses and make corrections.
	Add effects. For e.g.: hard cuts or gentle fades going from one scene to the other. many effects like page turning, roll, shove, colour fades,...
	Image processing effects: Colour corrections, coal drawings, mirror, relief,... Slow motion, backwards, strobe, false colours,...
	Add various titles to the scenes: text tables, scroll texts.
	Mix the sound, add background sound to the original.
	Record the final video to video tape.

Casablanca is not fixed to these functions. Instead, the concept of the software is: "Flexible and expandable". You can add new functions and effects without sending the machine to the manufacturer. All additions are simply bought from the retailer.

  The Casablanca-Software comes in many different languages, depending on the country.
At the moment the following languages are available:
Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turk.

Casablanca I - Technical data