Analogue Editing
Analogue editing is a type of editing, which is
basically cutting pieces of celluloid film. This type of film is usually
printed on acetate film. To be able to edit theses they are usually spliced
together to form a reel of film. Once they have been the spliced the reel of
film is then fed through a projector at a constant speed of 24 frames per
second. They use this speed, as it seemed to be the most realistic to the human
eye. This rate of speed allows it to look like the pictures are moving.
Before the use of non-linear editing, editing was done
with a initial copy of the film. This means that i you mess up the splicing on
the film the feel will be destroyed as you only have one chance of editing it
correctly. The initial copy of the film is on a negative film; this is called a
work print. By physically cutting and pasting film using the splice and thread
method a machine called a Moviola now allowed you to do this with a viewer.
Video Editing.
Before the use of digital editing technologies became
available to use, magnetic tapes were used to store information on this are
known as videotapes. Most video editing had been suspended, as it has been a
timely effort to be able to produce a video via this type of editing. However
this type of video editing was cheaper and easier than the earlier method of
analogue editing.
Digital Editing
Digital editing is a newly introduced form of editing
which has allowed editing to become much more time efficient and easier to do.
The form of digital, is electronic media which is stored digitally (as apposed
to analogue which is stored on acetate film.) Digital editing is done on a
computer in order to manipulate the video and sound from the digital data.
Digital data is stored in bits and bytes; this is in a form of 0's and 1's.
This allows the computer to easily read the images to be able to edit them in
an efficient fashion rather than in a dark room with chemicals developing film.
The best thing about this, is that there is no splicing involved therefore it
makes editing a lot easier.
With the introduction of no
linear editing. It allows you to access any frame of the clip regardless in
what order you edit in. The fact that you can now edit any part of the clip at
any time, allows you freedom to induce effects such as fades, transitions and
the fact you can copy and paste video. Therefore non-linear editing has now
advanced a lot since the earlier days of linear editing.
