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Computers completely revolutionized video editing.<\/strong> Before computers, video editing was more expensive and much slower.\u00a0 It took a whole roomful of high-dollar machines if you got into big-budget production.\u00a0 Simple productions like news used less expensive edit systems that could only do cuts, so lower-budget productions had to do without any special effects.<\/p>\n The skills and techniques used were completely different from modern computer editing.\u00a0 For the most part, video editing on these old systems was only done by professionals.\u00a0 The home video market did not include editing.\u00a0 Today, computers have brought video editing to the masses, making it much easier and more accessible.\u00a0 The home video market has exploded and now, all kinds of people use home video production as a hobby.<\/p>\n Editing video on a computer is called digital video editing.\u00a0 The old-fashioned video editing systems used analogue technology.\u00a0 Before video was common, film editing used something akin to razor blades and Scotch tape.<\/p>\n To help you realize how much video editing was changed by computers, here are two pictures of old analogue editing systems. The first is a low-budget system and the second is a high-budget system.<\/p>\n Analogue video<\/strong> editing is also known as Linear Editing.\u00a0 <\/strong>Computer editing then became known as non-linear editing.\u00a0 That phrase is not too common anymore since analogue editing is now considered ancient.<\/p>\n The first picture is a low-end suite I used for a small freelance business back in 1987.\u00a0 The total cost of all these components was about 10-12 thousand dollars. The system included:<\/p>\n This second picture is a high-end editing suite that cost as much as $500 per hour to rent and a minimum of half a million dollars to set up. Obviously, no one did that on a whim. Only serious professionals used these expensive analogue video editing systems<\/p>\n Computers made video editing much cheaper and more commonly available.\u00a0 Computers totally revolutionized the video editing business.\u00a0 Each component shown in the pictures performed a different function. Most components only handled one function, so you needed at least a dozen different components for professional-quality.<\/p>\n Each machine needed its own separate monitor, so that is why you see so many monitors.<\/p>\n This high budget system included:<\/p>\n A video editor today working on a computer still needs the functionality of all those components and monitors.<\/strong><\/em> Today however, they are all squished together into one computer program.<\/p>\n Each window in your digital video editing system, all the areas seen on your program interface, roughly translate into the many different components used a long time ago.<\/p>\n Digital video editing has allowed anybody with a computer to edit video. Even free programs can do more than some of the million-dollar systems of yesteryear.\u00a0 And that my friends, blows my mind!<\/p>\n FOOD FOR THOUGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here are some links to other VPT posts on video editing.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.videoproductiontips.com\/advanced-video-editing-using-mattes-and-layers\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.videoproductiontips.com\/learn-final-cut-express-video-editing\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n
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