Task 3 - Analogue and Digital Editing

Analogue and Digital Editing

Analogue editing is the cutting together of pieces of film. Originally films were made up of images printed on to acetate negatives. These are then spliced together to create a reel of film. These images are then played through a projector at 24 frames per second, which makes the images appear to be moving.


The Moviola

Before the widespread use of non-linear editing, editing was done with an initial copy of the film, this meant if one mistake was made the whole film would be destroyed. Each film was made by hand by cutting and pasting together pieces of film using a splicer and and threading the film on a machine with a viewer such as a moviola.













Video Editing

Before digital technology became available, magnetic tapes were in place to store information. These are known today as video tapes. Most video editing has been suspended by digital editing which is much faster and a lot cheaper.

Digital Editing

Digital media is a form of electronic media where data is stored, (as apposed to analogues) from. Digital editing is the use of computers which are able to 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.  This whole process is electronic so there is no printing or splicing involved in the whole process.

Digital editing is a very effective method which allows you to access any frame in a digital video clip regardless of the sequence in the film. The freedom to access any frame and use a cut-and-paste method which is very similar to cutting and pasting film. Digital editing allows you do add many effects to your clip such as transmissions and other effects that cannot be achieved with linear editing.

Examples of modern day editing softwares are Adobe after effects and final cut.