Technical Developments in Editing

  • Film Splicing(by hand)

    Film Splicing(by hand)
    Film Splicing( also known workbench cutting) is a technique used by filmmakers by hand cutting and joining pieces of film together. One of the first filmmakers to use this technique was george porter introducing it in his film ' the great train robbery'.
  • Machine splicing (moviola)

    Machine splicing (moviola)
    'Moviola' was one was first editing machine made to edit films, it was invented by Iwan Serrurier in 1924. It was the first machine used for feature length motion picture editing, 'Moviola' also allowed film editors to view the film while editing the film.
  • Linear editing (reel to reel)

    Linear editing (reel to reel)
    Linear editing was the original way of editing tapes or electronic videos before using computers to edit. Linear editing is the process of editing specific parts of the tapes, using a reel machine to put it together.
  • Non-linear ( Digital/ Computer)

    Non-linear ( Digital/ Computer)
    Digital editing is use of computers to order to alter and change the digital data, which change the order that choose to edit. There are a variety of editing programmes such as Adobe Premier, Avid and Final Cut pro.