Friday, 4 October 2013

AS1-T3-From Analogue Editing To Digital Editing


Analogue Editing
Analogue editing is the cutting together of pieces of celluloid film. Traditionally films are made up images printed on acetate negatives. These are the ‘spliced’ together to form a reel of film. These are then feed through a projector at a constant speed of 24 frames per second which makes the picture appear to be moving. This is known as analogue.  The advantages of analogue editing are that many people will like this as they are quite nostalgic , which means they will like the old fashioned way of editing, also it is found quite easy by elderly people. The disadvantages of analogue editing is people may find it hard to splice the two different bits of film together, and due to digital editing, people may find it a waste of time.

The First Moviola
Before the widespread use of non-linear editing systems, the initial editing of all films was done with a positive copy of the film wok print (cutting copy in the UK) by physically cutting and pasting together pieces of film, using a splicer and threading the film on a machine with a viewer, for example a ‘Moviola’. The advantage of the Moviola is that splicing could now be done with this machine and made it much easier than doing it manually. The disadvantage of this is that some people may not like to work with machinery and may like to do it with their hands.





Video Editing
Before digital technologies became available magnetic tapes were used to store information, these are known as video tapes. Most video editing has been superseded by digital editing which is faster and cheaper.

Digital Editing 
Digital media is a form of electronic media where data are stored in digital as opposed to analogue form. Digital editing is the use of computers to order and 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. The whole process is electronic so there is no printing or ‘splicing’ involved. The advantage of digital editing is that there is no splicing involved therefore the mistakes will be minimal and you can delete the editing you have done if you’re not happy with it and try to edit it again. The disadvantage is that there might not be people up to date with all the digital editing and will therefore not know how to use or some may prefer analogue editing.

Non-linear Editing
In digital video editing, non-linear editing is a method that allows you to access any frame in a digital video clip regardless of sequence in the clip. The freedom to access any frame, and use a cut-and-poste method, similar to the ease of cutting and pasting text in a word processor, and allows you to easily include fades, transitions, and other effects that cannot be achieved with linear editing.