Abstract: A mounting assembly for use in mounting electronic components into a housing. The mounting assembly includes a plate mounted in spaced relation to a wall of the housing, and a catch formed in the wall near the plate. An electronic component carrier is slidably mountable to the plate. The carrier has a fully removed condition in which the carrier is separated from the plate and an installed condition in which the carrier is mounted to the plate and is within the housing. A latch member is hinged to the carrier and is pivotable relative to the carrier between an opened condition in which the latch member extends longitudinally from the carrier and a closed condition in which the latch member extends angularly from the carrier. When the carrier is in the installed condition and the latch member is pivoted to the closed condition, the latch member engages with the latch to lock the electronic component into place within the housing.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for video editing and realtime processing which generates clips. Each clip includes data identifying a scene of a video or audio program, and data identifying processing operations to be applied to the scene. In preferred embodiments, control signals generated from the clips are supplied to a storage subsystem and a processing subsystem. In response, the storage and processing subsystems assemble and process, in realtime, an edited video or audio program from raw scene data stored in the storage subsystem. Typically, each clip contains content data determining the content of a scene (e.g., "begin" and "end" frames of a stored segment of video data) and also processing data (for use by the processing subsystem) identifying processing operations to be performed on a particular scene (or portion thereof) when assembling an edited program from stored scenes.

Abstract: A television storage system for editing and special effects equipment in which live video input material is recorded and converted into two parallel streams of real time live video with the input video recorded as compressed segments independently accessible on multiple synchronous disk drives.