Technical Developments in Editing

  • Film Splicing (by hand)

    Film Splicing (by hand)
    splicing was first used in the early 20th century. splicing is physically cutting film and joining the film together by hand.
  • splicing by Moviola

    splicing by Moviola
    A Moviola is a device that allows a film editor to view a film while editing it. It was the first machine for motion picture editing. It was invented by Iwan Serrurier in 1924. The moviola was used from 1924-1960s, when flatbed became popular as it was easier.
  • Reel to Reel (Linear)

    Reel to Reel (Linear)
    Linear editing was the original method of editing electronic video tapes, before editing computer became avalible in the 1990. before computers gained wide spread popularity and took the job of magnetit tapes, they were used to store information.
  • Digital/Computer (Non-Linear)

    Digital/Computer (Non-Linear)
    Digital media first began in 1992. Digital media is a part of electronic media where digital data was stored in computers in digital form. Digital editing is done by computers, the computer manipulate this digital data. There are many different editing programs like Adobe Premier, Avid and Final Cut Pro. The whole things is done on computers so theres no printing or splicing needed. Digital editing soon replaced video editing as its much quicker and can do many things that werent possible before