video editing is the process of cutting and rearranging multiple clips or
segments of video to create a new and presumably improved video and for folks
in the advanced class it can also involve the adding of titles animations
sound effects music and more but how did
it all begin well it sort of started
when a photographer named Edward mbridge
maybridge mbridge apparently they didn't have normal spelling back in 187 to
anyway he took a series of still photographs that proved once and for all
that horses take all four feet off the ground while Galloping finally settling
one of the great debates of the time mu Bridge went on to take more than 100,000
photographs of people and animals in motion which he displayed in books and
lectures and he even invented a device to display them called a zpra iscope
that projected these images rapidly in sequence onto a screen making the zubra
iscope effectively the very first animated gif projector from there the
methods of capturing these so-called moving pictures and replaying them only
continued to improve in the late 1800s
the film camera was invented which used a long strip of photographic negatives
called film stock and rapidly exposed
one image at a time in sequence these
images could then be played back rapidly to create the illusion of motion through
the use of a projector which was basically just a film camera in Reverse
early films or movies as they came to be called were very similar to stage plays
the film camera was kept in a wide stationary shot and all the action took
place over just one continuous shot and
just like in a live Stage production the audience was free to look at any part of
the scene that they wanted to later artists like George Miz began to realize
that there was no need to replay the film at the exact same time and speed
and in the same sequence that it was recorded he began to experiment with
jumping forward in time to make objects appear and disappear soon it was
discovered that putting two shots next to each other in sequence would create a
logical connection between those shots in the viewer's mind which is called to
position and so instead of recording an
entire movie in strict chronological order it was discovered that scenes
could be filmed at different times and in different locations and then combined
together later in the process that became known as editing this was
initially done by physically cutting apart the Celluloid film stock and then
splicing it together with another piece of film stock that is until the
invention and eventual widespread adoption of television and Video in 1948
now to be clear the terms film and video
are often used interchangeably nowadays but make no mistake they are not the
same thing unlike film video is an
electronic signal a video camera will
convert the image that it sees into a fancy modulating electronic signal this
signal can then be interpreted back into an image by a CRT television set I mean
back in the days and even Amplified and broadcast as a television signal to be
read by TVs across the country fun fact
by the way because there was no way to record these signals for later playback
until the invention of video tape in 1951 early television broadcasts had to
be watched at the time they were being broadcast now the exact method of
accomplishing this recording is very sciency and Technical but that's a
subject for another day the important thing to know is that videotape can be
erased and reused to record an entirely new video and film stock cannot once
it's exposed it's done what you probably
don't know is that it was possible to cut and splice videotape in the same way
that filmstock could be cut and spliced however these Cuts had to be done using
a microscope because they needed to be extremely precise so they wouldn't ruin
the video signal this was a huge pain in in the neck figuratively and probably
literally and so not much video editing was really done this way later
advancements in videotape technology allowed for machines that could pause
play and record from one videotape to
another without the need to physically cut the tape this allowed for fully
electronic editing which was easier faster and less error prone and that's
actually how video was done for decades until well into the computer age now
some work was done going back to the 70s on digital video storage and editing
using mainframe computers and hard drive packs the size of washing machines but
it wasn't until 1989 when the Avid 1
fully digital nle that is a computer-based nonlinear editing system
was released that it finally became for
real and while the Avid one had some initial limitations resolution frame
rate and content length being among them it improved rapidly and ushered in the
Modern Age of completely digital video editing with binary strings of zeros and
ones stored on hard drives or today even ssds at full quality for realtime
editing and output so today in 2015 Avid
is still around and better than ever but there are plenty of other nonlinear
video editing software tools as well at Linus Media Group we use premier here
and it's fine mostly and these digital
NL allow for video to be edited faster
and less expensively than ever before
without compromising quality speaking of doing things without
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