What is video cache?

We believe the phrase was coined by the nestor of the business, Screen Electronics, in the mid nineties under the name of "vidcache" – about a system able to digitize and transfer analog video from tape to hard drive. The name really ought to be VATcache, for not only Video, but also Audio and (sometimes) Time code is transferred to the computer.

Simply said, we are working with video clips instead of video tape. These days video tape is almost as obsolete as typewriters.

Why a subtitling system with video cache?

The advantages are obvious. Instead of operating a mechanical video cassette recorder, wasting time winding and rewinding, painstakingly searching for scene changes, you may jump back and forth in the recording or skim the subtitles or pictures at breakneck speed and manipulate time code at an unprecedented pace.

Professional subtitlers working with Screen's PU2020 vidcache estimate time saved to be around 20 or 30 percent. TitleVision's TV2003 adds another, very important time saver: Automatic scene change detection.