Task 4- Analogue to digital editing

What is analogue film and editing?
Analogue editing is the cutting together of pieces of celluloid film, traditionally films are made up of images printed on acetate negatives.
These are then "spliced" together to form a reel of film which is then fed through a projector at a constant speed of 24 frames a second which makes the pictures appear to be moving, this is known as analogue.
A device called the Moviola was invented in 1924 by Iwan Serrurier, it was the first device that allowed people who wanted to edit their work to view it while they made changes to it, it was the very first machine used for feature length motion picture.

What is video editing?
Before digital technologies became available magnetic tapes were used to store information- these are known as video tapes, video editing is the process of editing segments of these tapes using a device that mechanically puts pieces of video tape together.

What is linear editing?
The film has to be edited in the correct order, this is known as linear editing.

How does digital editing work?
Digital media is a form of electric media where data are stored in a digital form, digital editing is the use of computers to order and manipulate this digital data.
There are many different editing programs such as Adobe Premier pro, Avid, Final cut pro, Digital film making uses bits and bytes to record transmit and reply images instead of chemicals on film so the whole process of it is electronic so there will be no printing or "splicing" involved within it, Digital editing soon over took video editing as it is much quicker and therefore it becomes cheaper, also the biggest pro of digital editing is that you can edit it digitally in any order that you want to.

What is non-linear editing?
Non-linear editing is to just simply edit the film in any order.
You are able to edit a sequence from the end of the film before you have started editing the first scene, the process uses electronic files so it makes it easy to do.

What are the pros and cons of analogue and digital editing?
Analogue editing
Pros

• Makes you work harder
• you are more careful with the work

Cons

• The tape is bulky
• it is all manual work
• if the work is messed up you will be unable to fix it

Digital editing

Pros

• It is cheaper to do
• You are able to do major manipulation to the film

Cons

• it is more complex for some users
• you my get technical difficulties e.g. power goes out
• you may not think it through carefully and make loads of mistakes