Task 4: From Analogue to Digital Editing

Analogue and Digital  Editing.

To make a film there is two different ways to make a film. The first of both being analogue editing analogue and the second being digital editing.

Analogue Editing:
This is the process of cutting together the pieces of celluloid film. Traditionally film are made up of images printed on acetate negatives. They are then "spliced" together to make the film reel. They are fed through a projector at constant speed of 24 frames a second. This is known as analogue. 

The Moviola:
A Moviola was invented in 1924 by 
Iwan Serrurier. It was the first device that allowed a film editior to view film while editing.
It was the first machine used for feature length motion picture editing.

Video Editing:
Before digital technologies bacame available magnetic tapes were used to store information-these 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. 
The film has to be edited in the correct order. This is called linear editing.

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.
There are many different editing programs such as: Adobe Premier, Avid, Final Cut Pro
Digital film making 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.
Digital Editing soon over took Video Editing as it is much quicker and therefore cheaper.
The biggest pro is that you can edit digitally in any order.

Non-linear Editing
Editing in any order is called non-linear editing. 
You can 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 as easy as cutting and pasting text in a word document.

Con of Analogue Editing: 

With analogue editing it takes a lot of time and requires skill to fully master

Pro of Analogue Editing:

You can start editing  from any clip, it doesn't have to be from the start to the end.

Con of Digital Editing:

This would difficult for beginners to use.

Pro of Digital eEiting:

This is fast and easy for professionals to use.