AS1: Task 3: From Analogue to Digital Editing

Analogue Editing

Analogue editing is the cutting together of pieces of celluloid film. Traditionally films are made up images printed are to acetate negatives. These are then ‘spliced’ together to form a reel of film. These are then feed through a projector at a constant speed of 24 frames a second appear to be moving. This is known as analogue.

     The First Moviola

Before the widespread use of non-linear editing systems, the initial editing of all films was done with a positive copy of the film negative called a film work print (cutting copy in the UK) by physically cutting and passing together pieces of films, using a splicer and threading the film on a machine with a viewer such as a Moviola.

Video Editing

Video editing is the process of editing segments of motion video production footage, special effects and sound recordings in the post-production process. Before digital technologies became available magnetic tapes were used to store information – these known as video tapes. Most video editing has been superseded by digital editing which is faster and cheaper.

Digital Editing

Digital media is a form of electronic media where data is stored in digital (as opposed to analogue) form. Digital editing is the use of computers to order and manipulate this digital data. Digital cinema uses bits and bytes (strings of 1s and 0s) to record, transmit and reply images, instead of chemicals on film. The whole process is electronic so there is no printing or ‘splicing’ involved.

Non-linear editing

In digital video editing, non-linear editing is a method that allows you to access any frame in a digital video clip regardless of sequence in the clip. The freedom to access any frame, and use the cut and paste method, similar to the ease of cutting and pasting text in a word processor, and allows you to easily include fades, transitions and other effects that cannot be achieved with linear editing.