Task Three: From Analogue to Digital Editing

From Analogue to Digital Editing

Analogue Editing
Analogue films are made up images printed on acetate negatives which are 'spliced' together to form a reel of  film. These images are fed through a projector at a constant speed of 24 frames per second (24 Images per second) making the pictures move.
Analogue editing was by a person hand cutting and sticking reels of film together this was called "Splicing", this had many cons such as the reel of film being destroyed on accident or can be very expensive. No backups of film were store as there was no way of copying the reels of film.

The First Moviola
The Initial editing was first done on the first moviola was a device produced to be able to make editing easier and quicker by making the device to be able to cut and paste pieces of film together. This was done by using a splicer then threading the film on a device with a viewer such as the moviola.

Video Editing
Video editing is the process of editing when segments of motion picture, special effects and sound recordings are edited together perfectly in the post-production process before the film release. Before digital technologies became available, magnetic tapes otherwise known as video tapes would have been used to store film. Most video editing had been superseded by the more superior digital editing which is usually a cheaper and faster process.

Digital Editing
Digital media is a form of electronic media where data is stored digitally (instead of Analogue Form) which took up less space in physical form and would be much more difficult to destroy.
Digital editing is the use of computers to order and manipulate the digital data allowing the editing of the movie to be quick and easy.
Non-Linear Editing
Non-linear editing is a method that allows you to access any frame within the digital video clip regardless of the sequence in the clip and be able to edit the frame any way you wish by adding effects or by moving/deleting it. The freedom to access any frame and use a cut-and-paste method allows you to easily include effects such as fades, transitions and effects that cant be achieved without linear editing. The pros of this is that it is very easy to do and can be done quickly however can be very difficult to learn and edit film.
Final Cut
Most digital editing is used on software such as Avid or Final Cut Pro which allows a bypass of the positive film press altogether, this meant that a physical copy wouldn't have to be cut and spliced to edit and is done digitally and easily