posted on Jan, 13 2009 @ 06:48 PM
What hasn't been mentioned yet is that the audio and video were transmitted on different channels, so editing, especially live editing, would have
been tricky. The two data streams are entirely independent, so how do you guarantee that the audio data stream is chronologically aligned with the
video data stream. Granted, you can count on them being nearly perfectly aligned barring unusual events, but even a fraction of a second would make a
noticeable difference when a poor edit would be obvious in the resulting video (something suddenly disappearing, jagged motion, shifting of an object,
etc.).
A system that could edit video live would be a marvel today, during the apollo missions it would have been impossible.