History of Video Editing As Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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video editing is the process of cutting and rearranging multiple clips or
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segments of video to create a new and presumably improved video and for folks
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in the advanced class it can also involve the adding of titles animations
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sound effects music and more but how did
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it all begin well it sort of started
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when a photographer named Edward mbridge
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maybridge mbridge apparently they didn't have normal spelling back in 187 to
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anyway he took a series of still photographs that proved once and for all
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that horses take all four feet off the ground while Galloping finally settling
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one of the great debates of the time mu Bridge went on to take more than 100,000
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photographs of people and animals in motion which he displayed in books and
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lectures and he even invented a device to display them called a zpra iscope
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that projected these images rapidly in sequence onto a screen making the zubra
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iscope effectively the very first animated gif projector from there the
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methods of capturing these so-called moving pictures and replaying them only
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continued to improve in the late 1800s
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the film camera was invented which used a long strip of photographic negatives
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called film stock and rapidly exposed
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one image at a time in sequence these
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images could then be played back rapidly to create the illusion of motion through
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the use of a projector which was basically just a film camera in Reverse
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early films or movies as they came to be called were very similar to stage plays
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the film camera was kept in a wide stationary shot and all the action took
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place over just one continuous shot and
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just like in a live Stage production the audience was free to look at any part of
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the scene that they wanted to later artists like George Miz began to realize
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that there was no need to replay the film at the exact same time and speed
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and in the same sequence that it was recorded he began to experiment with
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jumping forward in time to make objects appear and disappear soon it was
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discovered that putting two shots next to each other in sequence would create a
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logical connection between those shots in the viewer's mind which is called to
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position and so instead of recording an
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entire movie in strict chronological order it was discovered that scenes
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could be filmed at different times and in different locations and then combined
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together later in the process that became known as editing this was
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initially done by physically cutting apart the Celluloid film stock and then
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splicing it together with another piece of film stock that is until the
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invention and eventual widespread adoption of television and Video in 1948
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now to be clear the terms film and video
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are often used interchangeably nowadays but make no mistake they are not the
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same thing unlike film video is an
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electronic signal a video camera will
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convert the image that it sees into a fancy modulating electronic signal this
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signal can then be interpreted back into an image by a CRT television set I mean
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back in the days and even Amplified and broadcast as a television signal to be
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read by TVs across the country fun fact
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by the way because there was no way to record these signals for later playback
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until the invention of video tape in 1951 early television broadcasts had to
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be watched at the time they were being broadcast now the exact method of
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accomplishing this recording is very sciency and Technical but that's a
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subject for another day the important thing to know is that videotape can be
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erased and reused to record an entirely new video and film stock cannot once
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it's exposed it's done what you probably
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don't know is that it was possible to cut and splice videotape in the same way
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that filmstock could be cut and spliced however these Cuts had to be done using
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a microscope because they needed to be extremely precise so they wouldn't ruin
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the video signal this was a huge pain in in the neck figuratively and probably
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literally and so not much video editing was really done this way later
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advancements in videotape technology allowed for machines that could pause
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play and record from one videotape to
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another without the need to physically cut the tape this allowed for fully
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electronic editing which was easier faster and less error prone and that's
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actually how video was done for decades until well into the computer age now
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some work was done going back to the 70s on digital video storage and editing
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using mainframe computers and hard drive packs the size of washing machines but
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it wasn't until 1989 when the Avid 1
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fully digital nle that is a computer-based nonlinear editing system
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was released that it finally became for
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real and while the Avid one had some initial limitations resolution frame
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rate and content length being among them it improved rapidly and ushered in the
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Modern Age of completely digital video editing with binary strings of zeros and
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ones stored on hard drives or today even ssds at full quality for realtime
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editing and output so today in 2015 Avid
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is still around and better than ever but there are plenty of other nonlinear
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video editing software tools as well at Linus Media Group we use premier here
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and it's fine mostly and these digital
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NL allow for video to be edited faster
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and less expensively than ever before
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