Viewing and Editing Tables

Conventional editing tables [Steenbeck, Moviola etc.] are frequently used for all forms of viewing of both original archive film and restorations.

Some machines are modified to handle shrunken film.

Most editing tables have tungsten halogen light sources with removable filters to convert the light to a colour temperature close to xenon, and these are suitable for quality checking, provided it is accepted that an editing table will always be second best to a cinema screen. It is too small and the angle of the image subtended by the eye is too restricted to be comparable, and the surroundings therefore play a large part in the judgement of an image.

Here you can see two different models of viewing tables.
The first has only one screen, while the second, having two screens,
allows the simultaneous viewing of the original material and the result of our work.