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A professional video editing console.

The term video editing can refer to:

non-linear editing system, using computers with video editing software
linear video editing, using videotape

Video editing is the process of re-arranging or modifying segments of video to form another piece of video. "NLE" redirects here For the standardized test see National Latin Examination. Video editing software is Application software which handles the editing of video sequences on a computer Linear video editing is the process of selecting arranging and modifying the images and sound recorded on Videotape whether captured by a Video camera, generated Video is the technology of electronically capturing, Recording, processing storing transmitting and reconstructing a sequence of Still images The goals of video editing are the same as in film editing — the removal of unwanted footage, the isolation of desired footage, and the arrangement of footage in time to synthesize a new piece of footage. Film editing is an art of storytelling practiced by connecting two or more shots together to form a sequence, and the subsequent connecting of sequences to form an In Film and Video, footage is the raw unedited material as it had been originally recorded by video Camera, which usually must be edited to

Early video recorders were very expensive, and the quality loss of copying was so great, that 2 inch Quadruplex videotape was edited by visualizing the recorded track with ferrofluid, cutting with a razor blade or guillotine cutter and splicing with tape. 2 inch Quadruplex (also called 2″ Quad, or just quad, for short was the first practical and commercially successful Videotape format A ferrofluid (from the Latin ferrum, meaning iron is a liquid which becomes strongly polarised in the presence of a Magnetic field. The Aston Martin Razor Blade team car was built in 1923 to break the one hour light car record of held by AC Cars. The guillotine ( pronounced /ˈgijətin/ or /ˈgɪlətin/ in English in French was a device used for carrying out executions by Decapitation. Improvements in quality and economy, and the invention of the flying erase head, allowed new video to be inserted cleanly into an existing tape. This technique was referred to as linear editing. If an early scene needed to be lengthened, all the later scenes would need to be added again. Multiple sources could be played back simultaneously through a vision mixer to be mixed or keyed. A vision mixer (also called video switcher video mixer or production switcher) is a device used to select between several different Video

Modern non-linear editing systems are computer-based, though there was a transitional analog period using multiple source VCRs or LaserDisc players. The EditDroid was a computerized analog NLE ( Non-linear editing system) developed by Lucasfilm spin-off company The Droid Works and Convergence Corporation who formed Footage is played into a computer and captured on a hard drive. A computer is a Machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions. A hard disk drive ( HDD) commonly referred to as a hard drive, hard disk, or fixed disk drive, is a Non-volatile storage device Editors use software such as Avid's Media Composer and Xpress Pro, Apple's Final Cut Pro, and Adobe's Premiere to manipulate the captured footage. Avid Technology Inc ( is an American company specializing in video and audio production technology specifically digital non-linear editing (NLE Media Composer, frequently referred to as "The Avid", is a Non-linear editing system. Avid Xpress Pro was non-linear editing software aimed at professionals in the TV and movie industry Apple Inc, ( formerly Apple Computer Inc, is an American Multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing Consumer electronics Final Cut Pro is a professional Non-linear editing software application developed by Apple Inc Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee əˈdoʊbiː ( is an American Computer software company headquartered in San Jose California Adobe Premiere Pro is a Real-time, timeline based Video editing software application High definition video is becoming more popular and can be readily edited using the same software along with related motion graphics programs. Clips are arranged on a timeline, music tracks and titles are added, effects can be created, and the finished program is "rendered" into a finished video. The video may then be distributed in a variety of ways including DVD, web streaming, Quicktime Movies, iPod, CD-ROM, or videotape. DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is Streaming multimedia is Multimedia that is constantly received by and normally presented to an end-user while it is being delivered by a streaming provider (the CD-ROM (an initialism of "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory " is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains data accessible to but not writable Videotape is a means of recording images and sound onto Magnetic tape as opposed to movie film.

For the home market, consumer-grade products such as Pinnacle Studio, ULead VideoStudio, Roxio Easy Media Creator, Magix Movie Edit Pro and muvee autoProducer serve a similar purpose, although typically with a reduced feature set. Two free programs that are bundled with computers are Apple's IMovie and Microsoft's Windows Movie Maker.

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