Task Four - From Analogue to Digital Editing

In this task I will be explaining the different types of editing and how/why they have changed over the years. I will be explaining what analogue film and editing techniques are. Furthermore talking about what video and linear editing are, and how digital editing works. Also including what non-linear editing is and the pros and cons of analogue and digital editing.

Analogue

Analogue is a type of editing; it is where you cutting pieces of celluloid film and then sticking them back together. It’s just like splicing, where you cutting pieces and putting them back in the right order. Analogue was used in the olden day to edit a group of pictures to be spliced together, then it would had to be taped back together, which would be repeated over and over again until a reel film was created. After the reels of film are put through projector at a constant speed of 24 frames per second, this would create the effect of the pictures looking like they are moving. An example of this would be the first ever film “exiting the industry” which was created in 1895 by Lumiere Brothers, it show the film in black and white, if you pay enough attention you can see cut between the shots from 2:07 to 2:11. By 1924 lawn Serrurier an inventor created the Moviola, the Moviola was the machine that allowed an editor to see the film and edit it at the same time. 

First video

created by the Lumiere Brothers 

Moviola

Video Editing

By the late 19^th - 20^th after Analogue, there was another form of editing which is video editing. This type of editing became popular and replaced Analogue editing because it was easy and not time consuming. Before cd or digital things became available, people used to uses magnetic tapes to store information, most people knew these as VHS (video home system). Video editing is the process of which segments of these tapes were edited using a device that mechanically puts pieces of video tapes together, this would make film. This types of technique need to be done in a correct way first time to dodge mistakes from happing. This is the same as linear video editing which is a video editing post-production process of choosing and arranging images and sound in a fixed organized structure.

VHS video editing system

Digital Editing

Nowadays film industry uses the most common method of editing, which is digital editing, this type of editing, is a form of electronic media where data are stored in digital from, as opposed to the previous methods of analogue editing. Digital editing is electronic method, so it uses computers to order and manipulate this digital data. There are many software’s that have digital editing such as Adobe Premier, Final Cut Pro and Acid, all these are the top digital editing software in the industry. In the film industry digital editing is done by using bits and bytes, which are strings of (1’s and 0’s) to record, transmit and replay images, instead of the old method of chemicals on a film. The reason being is that the method is electronic there is no need for splicing, so digital editing over ruined video editing, because it is quicker and cheaper. The major advantage of digital editing is that, while you edit, you don’t have to edit at the begging of the movie or video, you can start at the end movie or video and make you way up. This is also the same as Non-Linear editing. Non-Linear editing, you could assemble a cut in whatever order you wanted and go back and make changes without disturbing the rest of the assembly.

Digital editing software


Pros and Cons

They are many pros and cons, when it comes to Analogue and Digital Editing.

A pro of digital is that you won’t need to worry that much about mistakes, because it is digital editing, everything is done on a computer, so if you do make a mistake you can undo it, with a click of a button, also this will be saving you a lot of time on editing because you won’t need to worry about any mistakes. Another pro is that it, digital editing is cost effective, in the film industry editing does not take long like the olden days it is faster and mistake free to edit, so you will be saving money by the cost of electricity, paying the guy to edit and other things. Also because it is digital editing is done on computers, if you lost or accidental deleted you work they will be protocol that will have a backup of your work, when you need it. The last pro is that when you edit, you can edit in what every way you want, so when you are filming, it’s not necessarily to film it in the right order because you can edit it anyway you want. However, they are some cons to digital editing, such as some people don’t really take too much care about editing, so if they keep making mistakes it would take them a long time to edit then they are supposed to. Another con is that some people may find digital editing too difficult for them to use or lean, so when it comes to the film they will be struggling.

The pros of Analogue editing are that it is make the film editor thinks twice of what he is about to do, so he/she can the film perfect, also it makes them take care of the editing they are doing, to try avoid mistakes. Nevertheless they are lots of cons to Analogue editing such as editing the film takes too long, it would take months to edit a film in the olden day because the process was so slow and you only had one changes, if to film it so if film makes got it worn they would have to redo that scan again. Also they did not have CD’s or VHS’s to carry the film around in, this meant that it would had cost effective to carry the film around, because it would have been heavy. Additional in the old days they would not have backup copies of the film and the film was hard not digital so it could had gotten lost damaged or stolen, which likely could had happen in the olden day.