(III) Task Three: From Analogue to Digital Editing

From Analogue to Digital Editing

Analogue Editing:

Analogue editing was around before it all changed into digital editing. Before computers were created, they used analogue editing which was all done by hand, nothing was done by using software. You had a copy of the positive film where all the footage went onto when it was filmed. They then took the film and cut it in different parts parts using a splicer and pasted it onto different pieces of film to create the cutaways. With analogue editing it then had to be fed through a machine, this shows how much the editing techniques has changed over the years how now it can all be done on a computer and no messing around is needed.

Traditionally films are made up images printed on to acetate negatives. These are "spliced" together to form a reel of film.

Moviola

A moviola is a device that allows a film editor to view film while editing. It was the first machine for motion picture editing when it was invented by a man named Iwan Serrurier in the year 1924. The moviola the company is still in existence and is located in Hollywood where part of the facility is located on one of the original Moviola factory floors.

Video editing is the process of editing segments of motion video production footage, special effects and sound recording in the post-production process. Before digital technologies became available magnetic tapes were used to store information. These are known as videotapes

Digital Editing

Digital Editing is a form of electronic media where data are stored in digital (as opposed to analogue) form. Digital Editing is use of computer to order and manipulate this digital data. Digital camera use bits and bytes (strings of 1s and 0s) to record, transmit and reply. 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 a cut and paste method, similar to the ease of cutting and pasting text in a word processor, and allows you to easily include fades, transition and other effects that cannot be achieved with linear editing.