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The Instruments
► Linear and Nonlinear Editing Systems
The digital revolution has triumphed. It has succeeded in supplanting the old order. An unimpeded rush of breakthroughs in processing speed, computer memory, and software development has altered the world of filmmaking. Devices such as hex core processors, ATX motherboards, RAM chips, and graphics cards have infiltrated the nomenclature of today’s filmmaker.
Just as the history of medicine is reflected in the development of technology, so too motion picture editing has advanced from simple physical devices to a complex virtual technology.
In Praise of the Physical Body
Film, that celluloid strip of images with perforations punched along its edges, had postponed its final bow for longer ...
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