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In the field of professionalbroadcasting, an end-to-endworkflow (fromingest toplayout) is calledtapeless when part, or all of it, is made without any use of audiotape recorders orvideotape machines; video and audio sources being ingested, recorded, edited and played out entirely ondigital video systems.
Digital tapeless recording refers to any recording method usingdigitaldata recorded to a medium other than audio/videotape (usuallyhard disk,CD-style orflash memory). It is popular in sound recording circles using computers or specialized workstations, and has something of a following among video users as well (in particular, among both low-endcamcorder users who want the ultimate in light, silent equipment, and among high-end video and film producers doinghigh-definition video at such a highbitrate that tape simply cannot keep up. It is also common on mid-to-high end portable voice recorders, which record to formats such asMP3 orATRAC.
In the 30 years from the mid-1980s to 2015, tapeless production has moved from being an expensive high-end niche application to being the default workflow for professional production. The availability of low cost disk and high-powered CPUs and GPUs in modern computers has also made it affordable for even amateur productions, and often cheaper than solutions using professional tape formats.
It is generally believed that digital tapeless recording is the most robust and easy-to-manage solution for audio and video production. Nevertheless, particularly within the audio world, there has been significant demand for returning to all-analog, even vintage, recording equipment, to achieve a softer, "warmer" sound at the expense of precise sound replication.[when?][citation needed] This has not so much been the case with video production, as vintage equipment is often inoperable or unable to work with current technology, and generally lacks the quality achieved by digital video technology.
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